Taron Egerton shares family heartache as he reveals he became estranged from his father 'years ago' after 'pushing the ejector seat' on their relationship

Taron Egerton has given a rare insight into his family life as he shed light on his irreparable feelings towards his father. 

The Kingsman: The Secret Service star, 36, appeared on the Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard podcast where he discussed his estranged father David. 

David, a Liverpudlian bed-and-breakfast owner and musician, split from Taron's social worker mother Christine when Taron was two, leading to the star being moved with his mother from his birthplace of Merseyside to Anglesey in Wales. 

Despite admitting he was 'reluctant' to discuss the issue, he confessed: 'So there was a point where I pushed the ejector seat and haven't seen him since.'

He stated that their relationship 'doesn't work': 'I'm reluctant to talk in too much detail about him because he's, you know, living his own life and doing his own thing and I'll always love him. I just don't think we work very well in terms of our relationship.'

While his relationship with David is in tatters, he admitted in the interview that he saw his Kingsman co-star Colin Firth as a 'fatherly figure'. 

The duo starred together in the British spy franchise, in 2014's Kingsman: The Secret Service and 2017's Kingsman: The Golden Circle with Taron playing Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, while Colin played his mentor Harry Hart. 

He admitted that while filming the movies, he admitted that while filming leading director Matthew Vaughn threatened to axe him from the movie due to his hard-partying in the wake of his first ever break-up. 

He said: 'I broke up with my first girlfriend and I was like really aggressively partying to deal with it and was coming in, in like a bad way...

'And, you know, I remember there were a couple of days on Kingsman where Matt was like, you're going home. I can't film you today.'

Taron admitted that it was Colin who helped him in a 'fatherly' fashion. He said: 'Colin was amazing. He was never anything other than kind of gentle and fatherly and understanding... He was always, he was always lovely to me...

'And when he saw the movie, I always remember what he texted me. He said, you are note perfect. And it was so, he was so generous, kind man.'

The success of Kingsman however led to body struggles for the star as he got in shape for the movie – yet fell off the wagon afterwards. 

He said: 'I was in incredible shape for that movie. And it was the most, I felt, I think for the first time in my life, I felt really beautiful. Yeah...

'And it was completely intoxicating. And I was like, Oh my God, I am ripped. I've got this jaw. I mean, the hair was starting to go, but I had enough and I, um, and I felt invincible... 

'And when we finished the movie, I just went bang the other way and I gained so much weight. And that, that was really, really has been a feature of my adult life...

'Um, it's in my thirties, I've, I've kind of got a handle on it, but in my twenties, I never really felt like, you know, I never really felt like the movie, I never felt like, well, now I can go out and enjoy this, you know, because I didn't feel camera ready ever.'