'It was easier to say that he died than he left': Baz Ashmawy on being a positive male role-model

In his teens, the TV personality was saved by performing. Now, 'Ireland's best-looking granddad' makes a living championing joy, kindness, and positivity

Baz Azhmawy. Picture Jason Clarke

“Television has brought murder back into the home, where it belongs,” Alfred Hitchcock is once recorded as saying. 

His was the business of murder, of course. A lifelong proclivity towards tension, life-threatening provocation and the scourge and persecution of leading ladies, Hitchcock, The Master of Suspense, has much to answer for.