Richard Madeley has opened up about the regular beatings he experienced as a child at the hands of his father, the journalist Christopher Holt Madeley.
Madeley has two children with his wife and former Richard and Judy co-host Judy Finnigan: Jack, who is now 35, and Chloe, now 34.
“For full disclosure, when my children were growing up, I certainly never used a stick,” Madeley said.
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