I was orphaned and adopted at three and didn’t find my siblings for decades reveals Only Child’s Gregor Fisher

GREGOR Fisher has opened up astir being orphaned and adopted astatine 3 aft his parent died - and that helium didn't find his siblings for decades.

Only Child prima Gregor was calved successful a colony adjacent Stirling successful 1953 and his parent Kit McKenzie had 2 different children, but she had a bosom occupation and died erstwhile the histrion was three.

Gregor and his 2 sisters were divided up - against his mum's wishes - and helium was adopted by Jim and Ellen Fisher.

However, Ellen died and Jim's sister Cis took him to a spot adjacent Barrhead to unrecorded with her and her household instead.

He had a loving household with his parent Cis and it wasn't until helium was 18 that helium discovered that helium had a sister called Maureen - and to his astonishment - different relatives.

In his memoir called The Boy From Nowhere, written with writer Melanie Reid, Gregor went connected a travel to find retired the information astir his origins and to observe what happened to his commencement mother.

In an interrogation with The Scotsman astir his caller comedy series, Only Child, which helium stars alongside Greg McHugh from The A Word. Gregor revealed however his upbringing affected him.

When asked if it meant helium looked for stableness successful his beingness helium replied: “Yes. It’s not a conscious thing, but household is important to me. I accidental you ever pull the things you need."

"Sometimes the things you get are possibly not the things you privation but you astir apt request them, successful a acquisition from the universe. You deliberation wherefore does this support happening?

"Maybe you haven’t progressed Gregor, possibly due to the fact that you haven’t learnt the bloody acquisition boy!”  

When prompted to explicate what lessons helium had learnt implicit the years Gregor replied: "“Ahhhhh, I knew that was coming. I deliberation acceptance and to not instrumentality things excessively seriously.

"Not get truthful bloody coiled up astir things, and judge determination are things you tin bash precise small about.

"It’s a buggeration but there’s thing you tin bash astir it. And to beryllium grateful, due to the fact that there’s a batch to beryllium grateful for.”

The Rab C. Nesbitt prima past explained however helium went into acting due to the fact that helium enjoyed pretending to beryllium idiosyncratic other and added: "I find that progressively absorbing present I’m an aged boy. I conscionable find it large amusive and precise engaging.

"I tin retrieve arsenic a kid getting dressed up successful furniture sheets, and gathering a campy underneath the room array and inviting my parent into my structure successful the mediate of the desert.” 

In his caller amusement Only Child, subjects similar grief and pensioners losing the crippled don’t dependable similar a tube of laughs, but they’re handled beautifully.

Gregor explained: “We avoided mawkish. We’re not making a documentary. It’s a half-hour amusement truthful we held backmost connected that and played the world of it.

“I anticipation successful these scenes wherever beingness and decease get talked about, oregon immoderate it is being talked about, we play the information and determination on.”

As good arsenic Gregor and his co-star Greg, Only Child has appearances from Amy Lennox, Stuart Bowman, Clare Barrett, Robin Laing and Paul Rattray, with Jennifer Saunders arsenic the voice of Richard’s acting agent.

Gregor plays Ken, a 71-year-old, strong-willed technophobe surviving successful the north-east seashore of Scotland, who has precocious mislaid his wife.

His son, Richard has a portion successful a daytime play until his cause casually tells him the show’s over, portion he’s backmost successful Scotland visiting Ken, who’s struggling.

Soon Richard’s battling slope telephone centres for hours astir his dad’s forgotten passwords and diffusing tension with Ken’s neighbours.

But could being stuck with dada astatine slightest pb to romance for Richard? 

Only Child starts contiguous astatine 9.30pm connected BBC One and is disposable to watercourse connected BBC iPlayer