Second Best: My Dad and Me

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After appearances on reality television shows including Celebrity Love Island, Celebs Go Dating, Celebrity Big Brother and Ex on the Beach , the time has come for a challenge within football. Along the way, he seemingly became more famous for his exploits off-screen as he was regularly pictured with famous faces on his arm. Calum, who's 33 and sports a bushy beard in the programme, pulls no punches. "He was there as a footballer; he was there as a legend but as a father he didn't play a role because my dad wasn't a f****** good dad," he says, adding that all he wanted was to be loved and for George to tell him he was proud of him but he doesn't remember it ever happening. "The hardest part was losing my dad and losing my dad in the public eye and my dad being loved by so many but not loving me," he says. If there really is a possibility he is the dad then he needs to man up and take responsibility - or at least a DNA test to prove the paternity either way. Calum, who has had his own history of alcohol and drug dependency, revealed that he was anxious about entering the SAS camp, but believes his past experiences helped him through it.

I think it just really respectfully hits home," Calum tells the Manchester Evening News. "If you look at it visually, you can sense that he isn't well, but you can hear in his voice he wants to be remembered for the football and that's all he cares about. And you can believe it when he says it. That scene ends and the rest of the film is this incredible mirage of footballing genius. Read More Related Articles Reality TV star, Calum Best, has been slammed by 33-year-old Lorna for refusing to take a DNA test in 2009 to prove his paternity as well as displaying reluctance when it comes to meeting his child.

Who is Calum Best?

Ironically, perhaps, given his bohemian upbringing, he said he was ‘perfectly sane’ living in LA until he made the decision to move to the UK permanently, when he was 20. ‘It was this country – getting caught up in the nightlife that messed me up,’ he laughs.

Calum later described their relationship as "eight months of madness", telling The Sun: "It was a whirlwind, an intense, full-on, fiery relationship. But it was a good fire." We didn't have an 'I love you' relationship. I think that's because he was an old school Irishman who didn't know how to show emotions, but I'm sure there's lots of old school Irishmen out there that tell their kids they love them."In 2008, Best appeared on RTÉ's Livin' with Lucy. Later that year, he featured in MTV's Totally Calum Best. The show detailed Best's attempts to remain celibate for fifty days. [5] I use mindfulness, which is a constant practise of thinking, 'What can I do to help others, what can I do to help myself?', and, 'How can I be more thoughtful and mindful of others and myself and practise gratitude?' Calum is filmed returning to Stormont and to the Cregagh estate where thousands of people gathered in the rain to pay their last respects to his father at his funeral. "If there's a way to be sent off, that's the way to be sent off," he says.

Usually at a home game we have about 30 people watching us and there was double the amount here for the recent games. Improving the awareness of us as a set-up has been huge. Amy Clement, one of the co-founders of Her Game Too, says Best has been supportive since the campaign launched. An only child, Best’s world began to fall apart around the age of 22, as he watched his father’s demise from alcoholism. For Dorking Ladies’ director of football and manager, Kat Browne, it has been an important connection. Business owners taping bins shut in Lurgan as rubbish spills on to the street due to ongoing strike action

You've been on shows like Love Island and Celebrity Big Brother – would you do another reality TV show? East Belfast-born George Best is still regarded as one of the greatest players to ever grace football’s top flight and indeed the world, but the former Northern Ireland international and Manchester United legend endured a life-long battle with alcohol, which led to his death at just 59 years old. He says: "Since he passed, I've been through some highs and some lows and now I feel on top of the world.