Oliver! star Mark Lester answers awkward questions on being Michael Jackson's sperm donor

25 January 2019, 12:09

Michael Jackson was said to have asked his close friend Mark Lester to provide him sperm, and the actor faced a grilling on TV today.

Mark Lester - best known for the starring role in iconic musical Oliver! - appeared on This Morning today (January 25), where hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford probed him about him potentially being the father of Michael Jackson's children.

The 60-year-old actor discussed an upcoming Channel 4 documentary, which features interviews with alleged sexual assault victims of the King of Pop, and was asked by the presenters about stories that he was apparently the singer’s sperm donor.

"Mark, I want to ask you this," Eamonn said. "You say that you were a sperm donor for Michael Jackson and you said that 'I was a sperm donor for Michael. I had four children and he said how do you do it?'.

"What do you mean 'how do you do it?'". He replied: "I think again, extending his naivety, he knew how to do it. I think he was going on the fact how I was so fertile and what was the secret, and I couldn’t answer that."

Remembering the moment he was asked, Mark said: "I thought it was a joke at first."

Michael had three children, Michael Jackson Jr and Paris Jackson with Debbie Rowe, and Prince Michael Jackson.

"Do any of Michael’s children have your genetics?" asked Eamonn.

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"Regardless of who the so-called biological father is or whatever, Michael raised those children as his own," he replied.

"You must wonder?" asked Ruth, with Eamonn adding: "There may be physical similarities between yourself and Paris. If you realised you were the biological father of that girl, is that not weird?"

Mark said: "It was something that was given and discarded and Michael brought those kids up."