Today Extra host David Campbell reveals the one thing he HATES being called which makes him ‘shiver’

He’s the popular Today Extra host, who has enjoyed an extremely varied career in the entertainment industry – from musical theatre, to TV and radio.

But on Saturday, Jimmy Barnes’ son David Campbell revealed the one thing he ‘hates’ being called when it comes to his career, which he claims makes him ‘shiver’. 

‘I have always hated the term “Jack of all trades, master of none”,’ he wrote in his latest column for Stellar. ‘First of all, old timey saying-makers, 2021 called and they want their gender-biased pronouns back. Secondly, it’s pretty judgey.’

The 47-year-old, who says he didn’t go to university or have ‘any tertiary education’, added that he takes the term as a ‘derogatory’ insult which describes someone as ‘average’.

‘All it would take was a quiet night, a spoonful of anxiety and that phrase would gnaw away at my self-worth,’ he added.

However, the successful TV host now urges anyone who feels similar not to worry – saying there’s nothing wrong with people exploring their options, and discovering what they want out of their lives.

‘Let’s embrace the change which comes to us,’ he emphatically wrote. ‘Maybe we can master all the trades we want. All the Jacks (and Jackettes), our time is now!’

It comes after David opened up about his unconventional upbringing, after discovering legendary Aussie rocker Jimmy Barnes was his father at the age of 10.

In an interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly last October, the TV presenter revealed he was raised by his ‘very strict’ grandmother, who he believed was his adoptive mother.

He said he thought his teenage mother, Kim, was his sister until finally learning the truth about his family.

‘I had great manners but emotionally I wasn’t quite geared up for what was coming my way,’ he confessed.

David said that while he used to see Jimmy, 64, while growing up, he believed his dad was just a ‘family friend’. 

And he admitted that while it was a lot to come to terms with at first, he’s appreciative of the family he has today.

‘Being the child outside at first, and coming into the family, it’s been a wild journey but it’s beautiful. We are all really close and it just shows that family is family,’ he added.

During a radio interview on GOLD 104.3 in April 2015, David spoke more about his unusual upbringing. 

‘I was raised in Adelaide and the woman who raised me told me I was adopted. She [later] told me that she was actually my grandmother,’ he said at the time.

He added: ‘The woman I thought for 10 years was my sister was actually my mother.’

In a 2008 interview with ABC’s Talking Heads, David admitted he was more shocked to discover the truth about his mother than to learn who his father is.  

‘It was quite a shock. It was probably more a shock finding out that my mother was my sister,’ he said, adding that it ‘opened up a whole Pandora’s box of emotions’.