Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe talk parenting nightmares and dad disasters

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “If I knew why the podcast has been so successful, I’d be able to repeat the trick in other ways,” says Widdicombe, chuckling. We speak loads on the podcast and it was only right that Lou and Rose got an opportunity to reply.” When asked what type of father Widdicombe is, he replies: “I’m weak, too eager to please, a pushover.” Beckett reckons his own biggest failing as a dad is when it comes to work-life balance. “I live in the suburbs of London; he lives in the coolest, trendiest bit of London in a beautiful house in a beautiful area, but I’d find it hell where there are loads of 25-year-olds wandering about eating burrata, having the time of their lives,” says Beckett. Yet, he adds… “We don’t want any more children at the moment, but if the podcast is running dry we might bang out another one.” Parenting Hell by Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe is published by Blink, priced £20.