Carr used, then cut off, estranged father

Comedian Jimmy Carr reportedly contacted his estranged father for a favor after a decades-long silence, only to then resume the estrangement. The father, Jim Carr, was asked to help with a problem. The favor was requested in 2017, nearly two decades after the pair's relationship reportedly soured. The father, now 80, was left with no further contact from his son after fulfilling the request. The comedian has previously stated his father was "dead" to him. The father is reportedly keen to reconcile and meet his grandson, born in 2019.