Kathryn Flett on being a good father
Apparently, before a last-minute change of plan saved his life, on 11 September 2001 Sam Mendes had been booked on American Airlines flight 77 from Washington to LA (the one that ended up buried inside the Pentagon), while his missus, Kate Winslet, subsequently found herself on a plane from London to Dallas during which a random passenger declared himself to be an Islamic terrorist and announced: “We’re all going to die.” Fair enough, then, that after a few travel scares – albeit before they became a couple – Kate ‘n’ Sam decided never to travel on the same flight, because (and I quote the Mail on Sunday) “they fear dying in a crash and leaving their son Joe and Winslet’s daughter from her first marriage, Mia, orphaned”. And yeah, I bet Kate, Sam and the-not-noticeably-dead-yet Jim Threapleton, aka Mia’s biological dad, were just thrilled to read the MoS’s use of “orphaned”, especially as Jim was recently quoted saying what a great relationship that they have all forged, apparently oiled by popping out for the occasional beer with Mendes whenever they both find themselves in the same time zone – a feat all the more impressive given that Sam ‘n’ Kate live in New York, while Jim (remarried to a special needs teacher called Julie and about to become a father again), er, doesn’t. But even for those of us who have never been Oscar nominated, the rules of engagement/combat in the modern extended-family parenting arena are so insanely complicated that it’s handy to be offered an insight into how other civilians, or indeed Slebs, are, like the rest of us, effectively making it all up as they go along
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