Happy Fathers Way

0 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Jun 15, 2008 | by SHARON VAN GEUNS

EVERY little boy wants to be just like his dad... and when your pa's a world-famous superstar, sometimes the magic rubs off. To celebrate Father's Day, we've rounded up 11 famous sons who are real chips off the old block. Whether you're a Hollywood actor, a comedian with a stroppy glove puppet, or even the President of the United States of America, sometimes there's just no escaping what's written in your genes...

David & Brooklyn Beckham

THE Beckham boys are all football-mad but it's eldest son Brooklyn who looks most likely to follow in dad's nif ty footsteps. While Becks, 33, plays for LA Galaxy, Brooklyn, nine, has joined top youth team Real So Cal and shows talent.

Proud mum Posh says: "Brooklyn's showing amazing potential and I think he could go all the way. I'd love it if he did play for England one day."

Donald & Kiefer Sutherland

VETERAN Hollywood star Donald, 72 - best known for the original M*A*S*H film and his raunchy sex scene with Julie Christie in Don't Look Now - has a last ing Hollywood legacy.

But his 41-year-old son has been winning more headlines for his bad-boy antics. Kiefer, star of hit TV action thriller 24, spent 48 days in a Los Angeles jail last year for drunk-driving and breaking his probation.

Rod & Toby Hull

WHO can forget the savage bird Emu who gave Michael Parkinson a going-over? Rod died nine years ago, aged 63, after falling from the roof of his house while adjusting a TV aerial. But son Toby, 31, brought Emu out of retirement in 2003 and they now appear in their own series on children's TV.

Evil Knievel & Robbie

EVIL, real name Robert Craig Knievel, was the motorbike stunt rider known for deathdefying leaps over the roofs of double-decker buses and the Grand Canyon. He thrilled the world for nearly three decades until he died, at 69, last year.

Now son Robbie, 46, is following in dad's tyre tracks... and has beaten one of his records with a spectacular motorbike jump over a row of 30 limousines.

Bob & Ziggy Marley

DAD was the superstar who made Jamaican reggae a hit around the world until cancer killed him at 36 in 1981. Eldest son Ziggy (now 36 himself) is a fourtime, Grammy-winning singer in his own right.

Gary & Tobias Lineker

GARY, 47, the face of Match the Day may one day end up commentating on his own son. The former Spurs and England star's son Tobias, 13, has been signed up by Chelsea's youth academy... after turning down offers from rivals Spurs and Arsenal.

Ian Wright & Sean Wright-Philips

EX-England ace Ian Wright, 44, scored a hat-trick with three sons in professsional football. Stepson Shaun Wright-Phillips, 26, plays for Chelsea and England. Half-brother Bradley, 23, plays for Southampton, while Brett Wright, 21, is in Reading reserves.

Prince Charles & Prince William

WILLS, 25, won his pilot's wings this year, following the flightpath of his dad Prince Charles, 59, who did it in 1971, his grandad the Duke of Edinburgh in 1953, and greatgrandad, King George VI, who was the first royal to join the RAF in 1918.

Sting & Joe Sumner

ONE'S an achingly hip rocker... the other one's his dad... 56- year-old Sting (real name Gordon Sumner) has seen son Joe, 31, become a rock star in his own right. Joe's band Fiction Plane were the opening act on The Police's recent sell-out reunion tour.

George H.W. Bush & George W. Bush

LIKE his 84-year-old daddy before him, George Dubya, 61, became leader of the most powerful country on the planet. Famous for gaffe- filled speeches and now reviled over Iraq, it's just as well he doesn't have any sons to take up the family tradition...

Sir Alan & Simon Sugar

ALAN Sugar, 61, rose from humble origins in London's East End to build a pounds 830m fortune with his pioneering hi-fi and computing firm Amstrad. Now he's even more famous as the terrifying boss on TV's The Apprentice.

Simon, now 39, was born the same year as his dad's firm and went on to join the business. Last year Amstrad was snapped up by BSKYB (a move that put another pounds 35m in Sir Alan's pocket), but both dad and son are still on the board.