Learn more about Joanna Lumley's relationship with her famous son, Jamie Lumley…
March 24, 2022 - 19:30 GMT Nicky Morris We are loving watching Joanna Lumley explore the world's most wondrous cities in her new travel programme, Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World, which sees the star embark on adventures across the globe.While the presenter has been a regular on our screens for years, having become a household name thanks to sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, she isn't the only famous person in her family.
Jamie was born in 1967 when Joanna was 21 years old and is her only son. The pair share a very close relationship, with the TV star raising her child as a single mother following her split from Jamie's father, the photographer Michael Claydon.In a recent chat with Esther Rantzen on her That's After Life! podcast, Joanna opened up about sending Jamie to boarding school while she was busy with work commitments.
"He wrote me letters but I discovered much later that the headmaster had taken all the letters. The boys had to give all their letters to the headmaster before they were sealed up and posted and he was made to rewrite the ones that said, 'Please take me away.'"