Jeremy Paxman, right, with his father, Keith, and his brothers. Paxman’s father cut himself off from the family when the journalist was 24Jeremy Paxman has admitted feeling “passionate hatred” at times towards his father as he reveals the depth of their estrangement for the first time. The former Newsnight host’s late father Keith Paxman was a typewriter salesman who cut himself off from the family and moved to Australia when his eldest son was a 24-year-old trainee at the BBC. “Did I love my father? My feelings ranged from resentment to passionate hatred,” he writes…

Source: The Times September 23, 2016 23:07 UTC