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?

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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...

Also true of course Eccles, the Nazis were Wagnerians rather than vice versa.

I'm actually as unreasonable as you OP as I cannot stand jones for the very reason you mentioned. I read that article a few years ago and you can't help but feel sorry for his son. I've zero respect of any parent who takes no responsibility for their own child. I think the judge who was quoted in that article summed it up - 'It is heartless for a man not to acknowledge his own son. No sum of money can ­compensate for the damage that does to a child'. Kind of puts the whole teary reaction to Ruth on the programme getting upset when remembering her dad, into perspective. Fucker.