Black Mirror’s Charlie Brooker confesses his kids called him Josef Fritzl in Nando’s during a row – The Sun

HAVING parents as well-known as Konnie Huq and Charlie Brooker certainly has its perks.

But unfortunately, the unusual household chats between the telly couple, and their kids Covey and Huxley have made for awkward public displays.

Charlie said: “One of them was cross with me and said I was the worst dad ever.

“I said, ‘Actually I think you’ll find Josef Fritzl was the worst dad ever’.

“I really shouldn’t have said that . . . And then he repeated it.

“He said, ‘You’re worse than Josef Fritzl’, in a Nando’s or something.

“So it was a terrible day.

“I do have to watch myself a bit.

“They do know all the bad words, yeah, but they delight in policing other people.

"So if they hear someone say a bad word, they act a bit like a fainting Victorian.”

Charlie makes his return to British terrestrial telly tonight, with his one-off coronavirus-related version of retired show Screen Wipe — called Antiviral Wipe — on BBC2.

He rested the show four years ago, mainly because he was too busy writing Black Mirror.

And people have been quick to point out that the dystopian series, and much of Charlie’s early work, has predicted parts of the real world.

He said: “I find that quite hard to get my head around, in many ways, so it’s flattering when people mention it but also terrifying.”

He said many of the stories are about “the worst thing that could possibly happen” and added: “I picked the wrong career, I should be in sinister product design.

“I should be running an island.

“Isn’t Richard Branson trying to sell Necker Island?

“Why don’t we have a whip-round and try and buy it?

“Then we can build a back-up Britain to small-scale.”

Going with the win for Thomas

Thomas Frake finally has the iconic MasterChef trophy.

Bosses normally send it out after the pre-recorded final airs. But lockdown meant it had to stay put in the studio for a month.

Banker Thomas, from Tooting, SW London, who had held the cup only briefly for snaps, above, said: “I’m over the moon to have it.

“The trophy is the real symbol of success and being able to put it on the shelf at home has made it all feel real.

“Winning was a strange enough experience, but being on lockdown made it extra bizarre.

“I can’t wait to celebrate properly once the pubs are back open.”

I’d happily raise a glass or two on his behalf in a pub.

Gangs show is killing it

Dark thriller Gangs Of London has become Sky Atlantic’s second-biggest original drama launch, with 2.2million people watching it over seven days.

The show, which features Peaky Blinders actor Joe Cole, as the inheritor of a criminal empire in the capital, was also the channel’s most binge-watched.

Almost a million people were so gripped they viewed all nine episodes in the space of a fortnight – and that’s now increased to almost 1.3million.

The gangland tale is the latest in a line of hit original dramas for Sky Atlantic, with other successes including Britannia and Save Me Too.

Gangs Of London was second only to last year’s smash drama Chernobyl, which told the true story of the disastrous meltdown of a Soviet nuclear reactor in 1986.

Its final episode was watched by more than 4million people and helped the show scoop ten Emmy Awards.

Which only makes Gangs Of London’s achievement all the more impressive.

Golden Gordon

Gordon Ramsay is unrecognisable in the latest disguise he sports for his US TV show Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell And Back.

The chef dresses up as an elderly historian to go undercover in a restaurant in Ellicott City, Maryland, that has been devastated by floods and storms over the past four years.

It is one of three local businesses Gordon is helping to get back on track.

Although he has pulled similar stunts on the show in the past, this was Gordon’s most elaborate disguise yet.

And it was one worthy of featuring in the two-hour Save Our Town special.

It certainly fooled fellow diners, who had no idea there was a celebrity in their midst.

bizbit

ANNE HEGERTY is back on our screens on May 28 with her quiz show, Britain’s Brightest Family.

But this series will be a celeb special featuring Shaun Williamson’s clan facing Lucy Fallon and relatives in an “Enders v Corrie” contest.

Brown and out

As a man willing to don a wig, padded bra and dress, no one could doubt Brendan O’Carroll’s commitment to playing TV fave Mrs Brown.

But the creator of BBC1’s Mrs Brown’s Boys is so attached to the Irish matriarch he never wants to stop playing her.

He said: “I intend to drop dead on the stage.

“It’s my intention to milk this widow to death.

“But that’s the secret of Mrs Brown – just when you think there is nothing to write about there is a new drama.”

As for drama, Brendan reckons Mrs Brown, right, would be suited to lockdown.

He said: “She’d have liked to have married a man who she could socially distance from.”

must watch

WHAT? Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, ITV, 9pm.

WHY? Catch the final episode of the current series of the gameshow hosted by Jeremy Clarkson and see if anyone’s brave enough to go for the jackpot.

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