Richard Madeley has opened up about his strained relationship with his father, describing his dad as "broken" after a dark family secret.
The GMB host, 65, has said that he thinks that his dad Christopher Holt Madeley was sexually abused when he was sent to boarding school as a teenager.
He believes that this led to his dad being left "broken" and "f***ed up" and may have led his dad to hit him "five or six times a year" with a bamboo stick.
