Harry Hill says that the death of his stepfather made him a career in comedy from medicine

Comedian Harry Hill has said that the death of his half -father at an early age inspired him to quit his job in medicine and make his career in entertainment.

The 60 -year -old, which was known for the show of Harry Hill and implicated you, studied at St. George Medical School and worked as a doctor before pivying for comedy in the early 1990s.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Disc: “It had come a long time, and then my half -father died of cancer.

“And I thought, here is a man who has worked throughout his life. And they [my stepfather and mother] Always talked about what he was going to do in retirement. And how old it was? Perhaps 54. And I thought, I don’t want me to be. ,

“The second part of it,” laughable, “I think if I told him, ‘I am leaving to become a comedian’, he would be quite disappointing.

“So it probably makes me a little free from that. But in reality, I was a kind with my tether [medicine],

Hill qualified as a doctor in 1988, and started his medical career working in orthopedics. But, he explained, he was not emotional about the job and he felt that he did not have the right nature.

“I think it’s difficult, even if it’s in your heart,” he told the presenter Lauren Lavarn. “In the first six months, I had to break this news, whose wife died unexpectedly in this operation, and had young children, and I was completely out of my depth.

“I told him, he started crying, and then I started crying, and I thought it’s not good. I mean, I was definitely not very passionate [person]What does it really do to you that bottles your feelings. ,

Asked how long he continued to bottom his feelings, Hill replied: “I think until I had children. I think. There is something about having a child that uncontrollably.

“I was not a bad doctor,” he reflected. “If I was stuck on it, I probably would have finished as a GP.”

After doubting her suitability, Hill discussed her career with her advisor, before she told her mother to take a year off to try to try a comedy.

While quitting his job, Hill said: “I remember getting in the car, and it seems impossible, getting out of the hospital car park, I turned on the radio, and the tune that came was Eric Burden and animals, we used to move out of this place.

“I remember driving, lifted weight, and I thought, wow, it was really exciting, and it was, and terrible in equal measurements.”

Hill explained to his stepfather, met Tony, an amateur in his mother in a dramatic group, and often wrote to Pantomymes and acted as a dame in them.

“He inherited four children when he married my mother,” Hill explained. “And I didn’t think that at that time, but it’s a man to take it.”

At that time, Hill said, it was unusual among his friends that their parents had divorced. “People didn’t do so,” he remembered. “Everyone’s parents have now divorced, but then, people just excluded it.”

Hill has presented a variety of TV programs since leaving the drug, including Harry Hill’s Time, Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule, Harry Hills World of TV and revival of stars in their eyes.

Since 2019, he has hosted The Great British Bake of Children Spin-off, Junior Bake of on Channel 4.

But his most famous program was Harry Hill’s TV Barp, a satirical review of last week television. It ran on ITV for 11 series of its last episode in 2012.

Is a hill First indicated that he will not revive TV vessel Due to the intensive charge, a position he repeated to Lavarn.

“I made a lot of TV shows, and most of them have been very less successful than TV waste, but I don’t look back with that stress, especially in those years,” he said.

“I will start the week without any show, knowing that I will have to sit on Saturday morning and write a show. We will work a week in advance, from preview tapes, so I will sit with an empty page on Saturday, and at the end of that day I have to email it to the producer.”

While this episode was being drawn together, Hill said that he and his team “will watch TV all day, there were no shortcuts, you really had to watch Emmardel for a full two and a half hours”.

“The best day was the recording day,” he said, “but if you ask my wife, every time I come back from a recording, I will go up, she will be in bed, and I would say ‘I got to get out of it’. It was bad.

“But then I will see it on Saturday and think it was great, I really enjoyed seeing it.”

Hill also wrote Tony of 2021! (A Tony Blair Rock Opera), and X Factor Musical Eye Can Sing, which closed after six weeks at the London Paladium in 2014.

Considering his failure, Hill said: “It became clear to me that people who like X factor do not really go to music, and those who go into music do not really like X factor. It was really a bad idea.”

But he said: “You cannot break your heart, if you get upset about a professional failure then you will be a full child.”

The Desert Island Disc is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 10:00 BST on Sunday, and then available on BBC sounds.

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