"Ah, the indomitable optimism of middle age! When I was 53 and Hugh Grant was 52, I congratulated him in an article for becoming a father for the first time. It would be a blast, I promised. While piggybacks were harder on older than younger bones, I offered assurance that nature gave geriatric dads inner reserves of strength and a superhero’s ability to survive on less sleep.

"Now 13 years on, and with five children to his name, the Paddington actor (formerly the Four Weddings actor) has told a podcast he had his children “much too old in life” and at 64 he needs “a long stint in a sanatorium or an abbey”"

Andrew Billen, features writer

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