Ant Middleton has revealed he made his 13-year-old son grab an electric fence during a family day out (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Ant Middleton has revealed he made his 13-year-old son touch an electric fence to ‘teach him a lesson’.
The former SAS: Who dares, wins presenter has taken aspects of his brutal training attitude from the Channel 4 It seems that the former soldier shared a program in his family life parenting incident.
The 44-year-old has done just that five childrenincluding daughters Shyla, 17, and Priseis, nine, and sons Gabriel, 15, and Bligh, eight, with wife Emilie, and son Oakley, 22, from a previous relationship.
Recalling a trip to a national park when Gabriel was 13, Ant said: ‘I saw an electric fence at the front.
‘My son ran ahead and jumped fences even though I told him not to.
“He came to what he thought was a fence. I could have said, “Stop!”, but I thought, “You know what? I’m going to let him learn.”
“And he grabbed this fence and took a huge hit.”
The former SAS: Who Dares Wins presenter brings his cheeky training attitude to parenthood (Picture: Channel 4/Pete Dadds)
Speak with The sunAnt went on to say that he started ‘laughing’ at the time, despite Gabriel being ‘extremely upset’.
He said: ‘Obviously we started laughing and he was extremely upset – I think it was quite powerful to be honest.
“But believe me, he didn’t do it again. You have to let kids figure things out for themselves and I thought I’d let him learn the hard way.”
Ant has talked about it before He worried that he was failing as a father and concerns about balancing parenthood and the military.
“My fears are kind of like failing as a father, or, you know, failing as a husband,” he told Rachel Botsman on her podcast Trust issues in 2019.
Ant shares four children with wife Emilie and one from a previous relationship (Picture: INSTAGRAM)
“Don’t get me wrong, you know we all make mistakes along the way, whether it’s as a husband or as a father.
“But you know, eventually my kids turn to me and say… you’re not my dad or you know something like that, that’s really what scares me.”
The former soldier continued, “And I’m really just saying that because I failed as a father and as a husband while I was in the military.
‘Because, especially in the special forces, I gave priority to the military, everything was military, military, military.
“As soon as the phone call came… ‘Yes, I’m going to continue with that’ and you almost think you’re prioritizing your wife and kids, but you’re not.”
Ant has previously spoken about balancing the military and parenthood (Picture: Getty Images)
He admitted: ‘It wasn’t until I left that I got my priorities straight and you know when things started happening around me and I looked around and my wife and kids were there every time.
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“I realized, ‘Wow, how wrong did I get it?’”
Ant, who has hosted SAS: Who Dares Wins since 2015, was axed from the Channel 4 show in 2021 due to ‘personal conduct’.
He has since appeared as a lead instructor on the celebrity version of the program in Australia, and has made several other TV appearances, including on Dancing With The Stars Australia, and hosts a podcast.
SAS: Who Dares Wins is available to watch on Channel 4.
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