Hamish Blake says home schooling is like own version of Billy Madison 

Hamish Blake has been home schooling his five-year-old son Sonny, following school closures in Victoria due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

And in The Daily Telegraph’s Confidential on Friday, the 38-year-old joked that it’s like being in his own version of Adam Sandler’s 1995 comedy film, Billy Madison. 

The movie sees a spoiled, rich kid, having to repeat each year of school in just 24 weeks, in order to inherit his father’s hotel empire. 

‘I’m smashing this stuff,’ the Lego Masters host jokingly told Confidential of his home schooling abilities. 

‘I’m very proud of my progress. I feel like if I had to go and redo kindergarten in some sort of Billy Madison-type scenario, I feel like I’d be OK; I am all right with the curriculum.’ 

Hamish’s playful tone comes after he revealed on The 3pm Pick-Up last month that he’d been ‘told off’ for using the term ‘home schooling’. 

‘Have you been told off yet for calling it “home schooling”, when it’s actually “learning from home”?’ Hamish asked hosts Rebecca Judd and Katie ‘Monty’ Dimond at the time.

‘I got told off,’ admitted the comedian, who shares Sonny and daughter Rudy, two, with his beauty guru wife, Zoë Foster-Blake.

‘Who told you off?’ asked Rebecca in disbelief, to which Monty replied: ‘One of the teachers, probably!’

Hamish clarified that it was not a teacher at Sonny’s school, but instead ‘a person that was offended on behalf of teachers’.

They apparently told Hamish that the term ‘home schooling’ is offensive because it suggests ‘you can suddenly be a teacher’. 

Rebecca, who has four children aged between three and eight, said: ‘There is always someone offended. But obviously we are not teachers. We’re just assisting teachers.’

Hamish responded: ‘No one in their right mind is doing this learning from home thing at the moment and thinking we are teachers. 

‘[We have] mountains of respect for teachers for what they do every day.’