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He’s been dubbed a ‘serial dad’ and ‘Britain’s most feckless father’ for having 40 children by 20 different women, and he doesn’t plan on stopping there.

Since having a heart attack, 56-year-old Mike Holpin has put himself on a mission to reconnect with his children. All 40 of them.

He’s a self-confessed serial womaniser who himself said ‘I don’t believe in contraception’.

He claims to have had his first sexual experience at the age of nine. His oldest child is 37 and his youngest three, with an age gap of 34 years.


’22 kids carry my name, there’s 18, probably a few more, that don’t,’ he tells Channel 5’s 40 Kids By 20 Women.



He has so many children and grandchildren, he has had their names tattooed on so that he can remember them all.

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Out of the 20 women he’s fathered children with, only six were actual relationships and most ended because of his cheating and alcoholism. Most of his children were taken away by social services.

‘Due to my drinking and womanising most of my kids have gone through the care system and that makes me feel like s*** because they’ve suffered,’ he says.

‘They took them from me because I’m an alcoholic. I’m still an alcoholic, I just don’t practice it. A lot of people have turned their backs on me.’

Now he plans to get them all back and has given up drinking to do so.

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He desperately wants to reconnect with his 21-year-old son Luke who told him to ‘f*** off’ last time they spoke.

‘I blame myself for the way Luke reacted to me. I feel rotten my kids were brought up by someone else. It was my job and I was too drunk to care.’

Mike visits his son Mike Jr to see if he can help him get back in touch with Luke, and while he’s there he admits to him that when he was a baby, Mike used to use him in his womanising ways.

‘He used to be my pulling thing when he was a baby. I picked up a few birds like that. There’s nothing nicer than a single fella with a little baby.’

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When his son Mike Jr tells him he needs to calm down his wild ways, and that he himself only sleeps with women he really likes, Mike has some fatherly advice for him.

‘Sex is just sex. If a bird is ugly, do it doggy.’

When he finally manages to reconnect with son Luke he confesses he wants more children.

‘Enough is enough,’ Luke berates the father he hasn’t spoken to in years.

But Mike admits he loves sex, and doesn’t plan on stopping any time soon.

‘I’m only 56,’ he says. ‘I want more kids. I’d never stop. In the bible god says go forth and multiply, I’m doing what god wants.’

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40 Kids By 20 Women is on Channel 5, Tuesday March 31 at 9pm.

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