Jonathan Ross believes his daughter is autistic but was misdiagnosed by doctors.
The 52-year-old television presenter – who has daughters Betty, 28 and Honey, 22 and son Harvey, 26 with wife Jane Goldman – has revealed one of his children is on the autistic spectrum after spotting signs when she was a child, including slower development of speech, "fixing" on things and being "very strange about people".
However, doctors did not diagnose her with the disorder when she was younger, as autism wasn’t "talked about" in the 90s.
Speaking on the Lockdown Parenting Hell podcast, he explained: "One of my children I’m pretty sure has a level of autism. She was very late to talk and she fixed on certain things, and she was very strange about people.
"We took her to be assessed but not for that, [and] because this was early 90s and when that stuff wasn’t really talked about as much. But now we showed someone the medical report and they said, ‘Yes, now she would absolutely be diagnosed as autistic,’ but back then she wasn’t."
Meanwhile, the chat show host revealed he now sees his children more than ever during the lockdown despite them all living away from home.
He said: "I see them more than I need to, to be honest. I’m online all the time. We’re probably, in a way, as a family, spending more time together than not actually being physically together than ever before. I know my wife misses the physical contact – she really wants to hug them, she misses that side of it all, but I think overall we just count our blessings. None of them are sick, they’re all kind of OK and they’re all with someone."
Jonathan Ross reveals daughter is on autism spectrum
