Published: 10:23 BST, 11 August 2026 | Updated: 11:16 BST, 11 August 2026
Taron Egerton has given a rare insight into his family life as he shed light on his irreparable feelings towards his father.
The Kingsman: The Secret Service star, 36, appeared on the Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard podcast where he discussed his estranged father David.
David, a Liverpudlian bed-and-breakfast owner and musician, split from Taron's social worker mother Christine when Taron was two, leading to the star being moved with his mother from his birthplace of Merseyside to Anglesey in Wales.
Despite admitting he was 'reluctant' to discuss the issue, he confessed: 'So there was a point where I pushed the ejector seat and haven't seen him since.'
He stated that their relationship 'doesn't work': 'I'm reluctant to talk in too much detail about him because he's, you know, living his own life and doing his own thing and I'll always love him. I just don't think we work very well in terms of our relationship.'
Taron Egerton has given a rare insight into his family life as he shed light on his irreparable feelings towards his father
The Kingsman: The Secret Service star, 36, appeared on the Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard podcast where he discussed his estranged father David
While his relationship with David is in tatters, he admitted in the interview that he saw his Kingsman co-star Colin Firth as a 'fatherly figure'.
The duo starred together in the British spy franchise, in 2014's Kingsman: The Secret Service and 2017's Kingsman: The Golden Circle with Taron playing Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, while Colin played his mentor Harry Hart.
He admitted that while filming the movies, he admitted that while filming leading director Matthew Vaughn threatened to axe him from the movie due to his hard-partying in the wake of his first ever break-up.
He said: 'I broke up with my first girlfriend and I was like really aggressively partying to deal with it and was coming in, in like a bad way…
'And, you know, I remember there were a couple of days on Kingsman where Matt was like, you're going home. I can't film you today.'
Taron admitted that it was Colin who helped him in a 'fatherly' fashion. He said: 'Colin was amazing. He was never anything other than kind of gentle and fatherly and understanding… He was always, he was always lovely to me…
David, a Liverpudlian bed-and-breakfast owner and musician, split from Taron's social worker mother Christine when Taron was two, leading to the star being moved with his mother from his birthplace of Merseyside to Anglesey in Wales (pictured with Christine in 2019)