From Robbie Williams to Russell Brand and Jacob Rees-Mogg, dads who boast about not doing childcare sound more like 50s throwbacks than cheeky rebels
It’s the hot new dad-brag and all the best men are using it: I don’t change nappies. You want to know what I do? Diddly-squat, that’s what. “It is all right, I have lots of help – hot and cold running staff,” Robbie Williams told the US show Access Hollywood, speaking of the birth of his fourth child. So that’s all right then. His wife, Ayda Field, may not have a hands-on husband, but he knows how to raise a smile with a cheeky metaphor likening his economic inferiors to household plumbing. That’s a keeper.
This dad-as-50s-throwback routine last took a parade with Russell Brand, who admitted last year that nobody would really trust him to look after his own children for 24 hours. That isn’t really what a father is any more, we cried in dismay – like a babysitter, only grumpier and less competent. That’s not really what domestic intimacy and respect is about. But Jacob Rees-Mogg had already effortlessly scooped the title of Worst Dad, In Every Way, two years before, when he said that he had had six children and never changed a nappy.
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