Jimmy Carr has confirmed that he had a son two years ago, and gave him the unusual name Rockefeller.
A 2012 investigation by The Times accused Carr of sheltering £3.3m a year through the K2 scheme, a legal way of lowering the amount of tax paid.
In a new interview with Radio Times, Carr revealed his son is named after John D Rockefeller, an American business magnate and philanthropist widely considered the wealthiest American of all time and the richest person in modern history.
“People thought, because of the type of comedy I do, that it was water off a duck’s back to me.