PRIME Minister Tony Blair's son Euan caused great embarrassment to his parents by being drunk and incapable on the London streets while celebrating his GCSE results with friends.

But he's not the only youngster who has shown up his parents.

We asked the great and the good of York to reveal their stories.

Charles Whiting, the popular York author, was once left red-faced after his son Julian was three hours late after celebrating the end of his A-levels with friends.

He said: "I told him he wasn't to come home later than midnight, but he turned up at 3am. In the morning he had to go back to the school and the headmaster threatened him with the cane if he came back any later than ten o'clock at night. Things have definitely changed these days!"

Oscar-winning York actress Dame Judi Dench revealed she was an "appalling" pupil while at The Mount School.

She told the Evening Press: "On the very first day I was there, I had an altercation with a friend and she pushed me on to a fire extinguisher and it went off. The damage was so bad that the corridor had to be repainted.

"They didn't give me a report for my first term because I was just appalling."

Top York band Shed Seven's frontman, Rick Witter, recalled an occasion when he was ten years-old on a family day out in Torquay.

"For some reason I thought I would put my head through a turnstile bar on Torquay pier," he said. "I was stuck for ages and all the emergency services had to be called to get me out. My mum and dad were so embarrassed!"

Even Archbishops can show up their parents.

The Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope, recalled how he had the threat of a caning hanging over him as a choirboy at Wakefield Cathedral, after he was caught talking during a sermon.

"The Verger came across and told us if we weren't careful we would be reported to the Provost of the Cathedral," he said.

In those days that could mean lining up at the Vestry for a caning - but luckily it didn't come to that.

Another time the Provost warned him and another choirboy about eating fish and chips in a main road in Wakefield, so from then on they kept to the side streets.

The tactic paid off, for 37 years later David Hope was at the same cathedral being enthroned as Bishop of Wakefield.

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