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'Screamingly funny...a splendidly effervescent and enjoyable book'
Daily Mail One part Lonely Planet, one part tell-all family memoir,
this is the definitive and hilarious guide on how to survive your
family holiday, by Jack Whitehall, with a little bit of help from
Michael and Hilary Whitehall. No one family has more experience of
travelling together than the Whitehalls. Indeed they've been
allowing us a window to their escapades for the past five years in
the hit Netflix show 'Travels with my Father' and in this hilarious
book they have now decided to pool their advice for fellow
travellers. To lay out the pitfalls of family holidays. The dos and
don'ts, the highs and lows. In doing so they are sharing some of
their best anecdotes. Their most extreme experiences and their most
valuable advice. It is part memoir of family life, part travel
guide, and full on, laugh-out-loud funny. Whatever your version of
holiday preparation the truth is always this: if it is with one's
own family, no amount of sunshine, wine or holiday spirit will stop
your worst character traits coming to the surface. You have just
volunteered to spend a week in close proximity with the people who
know you best and who will never ever let you forget a f***-up. No
one survives unscathed. Things are always going to end in tears,
you can only hope they're of laughter.
'Screamingly funny...a splendidly effervescent and enjoyable book'
Daily Mail One part Lonely Planet, one part tell-all family memoir,
this is the definitive and hilarious guide on how to survive family
holidays. No one has more experience of travelling together than
the Whitehalls. They've given us a window into their escapades in
the hit Netflix show, Travels With My Father, and in this
brilliantly funny book they've pooled their advice for fellow
travellers. In doing so they are sharing some of their best
anecdotes, their most extreme experiences and their most valuable
advice. It's part memoir of family life, part travel guide and full
on, laugh-out-loud funny.
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Him & Me (Paperback)
Jack Whitehall, Michael Whitehall
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Him & Me is a hugely entertaining and irreverent account of a
unique relationship between a father and son. Written in two
distinctive styles, it reflects the larger-than-life personalities
of its authors, Jack and Michael Whitehall. 'This book is a
portrait of the pretty odd relationship I have with my elderly
father. It's given me an opportunity to share memories of him
losing his temper with foreigners on holidays, being rude to my
mother's family at Christmas and failing epically during the
fathers' race at my prep school. He's also written some stories
about me, but can I just say, before you read anything, that I
recall being a calm, well-behaved and learned child, not the
intellectually subnormal, mal-coordinated dipshit that he paints me
as. Nor am I, as he suggests inside, a sex addict, a flasher or a
Scientologist.' Jack 'How dare Jack refer to me as elderly! People
always tell me how young I look for my age. In this book, I have at
last been able to recount the many occasions when I have been let
down by my only son. He failed on the stage, the sports field and
he even screwed up the interview for his first boarding school by
pretending he had mental health issues. Despite being practically
illiterate, he tells stories about me, strewn with grammatical
errors and peppered with endless exaggerations and lies. I was a
kind, doting father, who guided his son through his formative years
with love, care and respect.' Michael 'I'm not your only son, what
about Barnaby?' 'Oh yes, I forgot about Barnaby.' Packed with
anecdotes, some embarrassing and indiscreet, many warm and
touching, Him & Me is lavishly illustrated with family
photographs and Jack's original illustrations. Friends, relatives,
neighbours, teachers, actors, none are safe once Jack and Michael
have opened up the Whitehall archives and shared their hilarious
memories with us. Praise for Him & Me: 'The rapport between
them is palpable and priceless . . . crackles with their
back-and-forth dynamic... an embarrassment of biographical riches'
Daily Telegraph 'Disgracefully funny and rather touching' R4
Midweek Jack Whitehall is a comedian, actor and television
presenter. Following his first solo show at the 2009 Edinburgh
Fringe Festival, he has subsequently won numerous comedy awards,
most recently King of Comedy, voted for by the public at both the
2012 and 2013 British Comedy Awards. A regular guest on panel
shows, including Have I Got News For You and A League of Their Own,
he is currently starring in two hit TV series: Bad Education for
the BBC, which he also wrote, and the award-winning Channel 4
series Fresh Meat in which he plays JP. Jack's new national arena
tour Jack Whitehall Gets Around played to sell-out audiences across
the country and will be available on DVD this Autumn. Michael
Whitehall as a theatrical agent has been involved in the careers of
many eminent actors, including Colin Firth, Richard Griffiths,
Angela Thorne, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Day Lewis, Nigel Havers
and Judi Dench. He is also a television and theatre producer. His
memoir Shark Infested Waters was published in 2007 and is currently
being developed for television. He appeared with Jack at the 2011
Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Backchat, which was subsequently
commissioned by BBC TV as a six-part series and screened in the
Autumn of 2013. A second series is due for transmission in the
Summer of 2014. He recently fulfilled his lifelong ambition of
appearing in Dictionary Corner on Countdown.
'Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly
non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine
raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still deeply suspicious
of modernity' Daily Mail Standing in front of a full-length mirror
in my dressing room at ITV studios, waiting to go on to the set of
Backchat, I had a brief conversation with my reflection. 'Michael,
what the f*** do you think you're doing?' Theatrical agent Michael
Whitehall spent a career pushing others into the spotlight. He had
been involved behind the scenes with the careers of many prominent
actors, including Colin Firth, Richard Griffiths, Daniel Day-Lewis,
Tom Courtenay, Ian Ogilvy, Judi Dench, Edward Fox, Michael
Fassbender, Angela Thorne and Nigel Havers. But then, much to his
surprise, his son Jack becomes a successful comedian and actor and
decides that his new comedy partner should be his father. Whitehall
Snr. finds himself reluctantly appearing on stage and then
television, cast as the archetypal grumpy old man and thrust, in
his early seventies, into a whole new career in front of the
camera. Minor fame comes at a sedate pace: one of the highlights
being a record GBP300,000 win for charity with Jack on Channel 4's
The Million Pound Drop. In this enchanting memoir Whitehall looks
back on his life, from growing up in suburban London in the 1940s
and '50s with his saintly father and social climbing-mother, who
coined the phrase 'a la carte' to describe people who were posher
than she was and whose company she craved, to falling into a career
as a successful theatrical agent and producer. As he says, 'Actors
can be egotistical, greedy and vain, but they're not half as bad as
agents and producers.' Charming, gossipy and above all very funny,
Backing Into The Spotlight is no ordinary show business memoir.
No one family has more experience of travelling together than the
Whitehalls. Indeed they've been allowing us a window to their
escapades for the past 4 years in the hit Netflix show 'Travels
with my Father' and in this hilarious book they have now decided to
pool their advice for fellow travellers. To lay out the pitfalls of
family holidays. The dos and don'ts, the highs and lows. In doing
so they are sharing some of their best anecdotes. Their most
extreme experiences and their most valuable advice. It is part
memoir of family life, part travel guide, and full on,
laugh-out-loud funny. We've all done it. Packed our bags, secured
our homes, set off for the airport, the light of hope in our eyes.
On the horizon the perfect holiday - be it a tropical clime, or a
remote hilltop town in the Scottish highlands. If you are of Hilary
Whitehall's persuasion the itinerary has been carefully calibrated,
the restaurants booked in advance and the sun tan lotion sealed and
zip locked into the suitcase. If you are of Michael's you have
selected an array of three-piece suits, matched your socks and ties
and relied on your wife to stow them safely. And if you are like
Jack you've just upturned your laundry bin into a bag and feel smug
that you remembered a phone charger. Whatever your version of
holiday preparation the truth is always this: if it is with one's
own family, no amount of sunshine, wine or holiday spirit will stop
your worst character traits coming to the surface. You have just
volunteered to spend a week in close proximity with the people who
know you best and who will never ever let you forget a f***-up. No
one survives unscathed. Things are always going to end in tears,
you can only hope they're of laughter.
'Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly
non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine
raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still deeply suspicious
of modernity' Daily Mail Standing in front of a full-length mirror
in my dressing room at ITV studios, waiting to go on to the set of
Backchat, I had a brief conversation with my reflection. 'Michael,
what the f*** do you think you're doing?' Theatrical agent Michael
Whitehall spent a career pushing others into the spotlight. He had
been involved behind the scenes with the careers of many prominent
actors, including Colin Firth, Richard Griffiths, Daniel Day-Lewis,
Tom Courtenay, Ian Ogilvy, Judi Dench, Edward Fox, Michael
Fassbender, Angela Thorne and Nigel Havers. But then, much to his
surprise, his son Jack becomes a successful comedian and actor and
decides that his new comedy partner should be his father. Whitehall
Snr. finds himself reluctantly appearing on stage and then
television, cast as the archetypal grumpy old man and thrust, in
his early seventies, into a whole new career in front of the
camera. Minor fame comes at a sedate pace: one of the highlights
being a record GBP300,000 win for charity with Jack on Channel 4's
The Million Pound Drop. In this enchanting memoir Whitehall looks
back on his life, from growing up in suburban London in the 1940s
and '50s with his saintly father and social climbing-mother, who
coined the phrase 'a la carte' to describe people who were posher
than she was and whose company she craved, to falling into a career
as a successful theatrical agent and producer. As he says, 'Actors
can be egotistical, greedy and vain, but they're not half as bad as
agents and producers.' Charming, gossipy and above all very funny,
Backing Into The Spotlight is no ordinary show business memoir.
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