Benedict Cumberbatch has explained why he doesn’t want his children to follow in his footsteps and attend boarding school.

The 49-year-old, who shares three sons with wife and theatre director Sophie Hunter, attended Harrow School in greater London, where the annual fees are in the thousands.

Yet he has no said that he does not want his sons Christopher, Hal and Finn to attend such a school, for fairly selfish reasons.

‘Not unless they really want to, but no way,’ the actor said.

‘And Sophie [feels] the same. Selfishly, I want them around – I still want to be there, in case the call comes, [when] the fall happens, I wanna be there,’ he added, according to the Daily Mail.

Yet Cumberbatch went on to praise his all boys boarding school – which counts Winston Churchill, James Blunt and Lo

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