{"id":11062,"date":"2022-02-23T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2022-02-23T22:12:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:12:11","slug":"five-things-you-might-not-know-about-jack-and-michael-whitehall","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/rss_feed\/five-things-you-might-not-know-about-jack-and-michael-whitehall\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things you might not know about Jack and Michael Whitehall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rich Marshall\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 23 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Known for their comedic banter, father and son Jack and Michael Whitehall co-present talkshow\u00a0<em>Backchat<\/em>\u00a0and Netflix series\u00a0<em>Travels with My Father<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re now the first pair of relatives to discover their family origins on\u00a0<em>Who Do You Think You Are? <\/em>together<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are five things you might not know about the Whitehalls\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Theatrical roots<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Whitehall family has deep roots in the world of theatre. Michael Whitehall is a producer and theatrical agent and his wife Hilary is an actor under the stagename Hilary Gish. Jack\u2019s godfathers were the actors Richard Griffiths and Nigel Havers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Potter pals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jack Whitehall went to school with\u00a0<em>Harry Potter<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Twilight<\/em>\u00a0actor Robert Pattinson, who he jokes used to beat him for the best parts in school plays. He also auditioned for the part of Harry Potter but was turned down because he hadn\u2019t read the book. Of course, the part went to Jack\u2019s fellow\u00a0<em>WDYTYA?<\/em>\u00a0star\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com\/episode\/daniel-radcliffe\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\">Daniel Radcliffe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Small screen star<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, Jack\u2019s acting career did take off eventually \u2013 he first starred in student sitcom\u00a0<em>Fresh Meat<\/em>\u00a0and went on to play a teacher in\u00a0<em>Bad Education<\/em>\u00a0(for which he was also a writer and associate producer). He can currently be seen in Amazon Prime\u2019s\u00a0<em>Good Omens<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Literary link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As well as appearing together on TV and on\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0gyfK7sgvki7Rk-_EKyZnA&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\">Jack\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>, Jack and Michael have worked together on three books. Jack illustrated Michael\u2019s 2007 memoir <em>Shark Infested Waters: Tales of an Actors\u2019 Agent<\/em>, in 2013 they co-wrote <em>Him &amp; Me: A Father and Son Remember It All Differently\u00a0<\/em>and in 2021 they brought out <em>How to Survive Family Holidays<\/em> co-written with actor Hilary Whitehall, Jack\u2019s mother and Michael\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Double act<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When he appeared on Radio 4\u2019s\u00a0<em>Desert Island Discs<\/em> in 2018, Jack said that he thinks audiences enjoy his banter with Michael because it reminds them of their relationship with their own fathers: \u201cThe way they bicker and the way he puts me down, and the way I wind him up is very relatable and, whilst he says glibly he never wanted it and \u2018Why am I doing this?\u2019, he loves it and I love it.\u201d<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rich Marshall Published: Wednesday, 23 February 2022 at 12:00 am \u00a0 Known for their comedic banter, father and son Jack and Michael Whitehall co-present talkshow\u00a0Backchat\u00a0and Netflix series\u00a0Travels with My Father. They\u2019re now the first pair of relatives to discover their family origins on\u00a0Who Do You Think You Are? together. 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