To have a bit of a problem with Tom Jones being a 'mentor' on TV when he couldn't give his own son the time of day?

[haagendaz]

I have always disliked Tom Jones for this reason and feel it's a bit inappropriate for him to be cast as a mentor when he wouldn't even accept his own child? Yes I realise this is a TV programme and perhaps I am being UR not seperating the two issues...

It's a TV programme.

what happened with his son?

Can't see the connection, myself. Lots of people are able to mentor or inspire in their professional life whilst being less than amazing in their personal life.

YABU to have overlooked Danny from the Script. He is a total dick.

Son from one-night stand.

He's mentoring their singing and D-list celebrity skills, not parenting them.

YABU to get so emotionally involved. Unless you know his son in real life, of course.

Get a grip it's a tv programme

I don't know, I haven't met him, or his son.

YABU.

Yes, I realise I probably was being UR just really hate to see him in that role with those young people having the opportunity to look up to him after the way he treated his own child

They are looking up to him for his singing and sleb skills, not his parenting/relationship skills.

It's about music not him being a parent?

A bit like those who admire Wagner can separate out his music from the fact he was a big fat Nazi.

Well the papers said it so it MUST be true

Think the son's mother has behaved rather badly, actually. She didn't know Tom Jones is married? Really? And then to tell her child that daddy was "busy" for 18 years, could she not have come up with a better story than that?

Ah well, Wagner is very dead indeed, so if I listen to his music he's not going to benefit from it in any way. If he were still around to collect the royalties I'd boycott him regardless of his genius.

I just realised that you meant Wagner. Not Wagner.

I reached for X-factor. I am the lowest of the low-brow

Pag- that's funny!

Shameful

DAMN i clicked on a daily mail link, there goes my boycott again, can they tell I closed it down straight away? PLEASE label your links if you remember

pag that suggests a whole new scenario akin to the urban myth of the bride and groom walking down the aisle to 'Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen'

My apologies for the unmarked Mail link.

oh don't worry i probably ought to assume all links are DM links unless specifically labelled otherwise!

Maybe he was a nazi too, pag.

Wagner died in 1883, so it would have been quite a trick for him to be a Nazi. He did have rather unpleasant opinions, of course.