Justin Webb's search for his father

[Douglas]

Today, it has become public knowledge that broadcaster Justin Webb's father is BBC newsreader Peter Woods.

Justin Webb's search for his father - Telegraph

Webb, who was the BBC's political correspondent in the USA for eight years and raised several controversies, has told of how his mother barely mentioned the man she fell pregnant to during an extra-marital affair of his.

BBC News - Today host Justin Webb names his father as Peter Woods

Webb says he sometimes thinks having a proper father would have been less intense and lonesome

This seems as much a lesson against extra-marital affairs, as it does against careless women having children while single. The result is usually a person, lonely as a child, who will always feel they have missed out.

[Unregistered]

I'm surprised to hear that the thick pillock had a father.

[Douglas]

I'm surprised to hear that the thick pillock had a father.

We all have a father. Fewer and fewer of us are allowed to have a Dad.