Editing David Jason (section)

==Personal life==
Jason lived with his long-term girlfriend, Welsh actress [[Myfanwy Talog]], for 18 years and nursed her through [[breast cancer]] until she died in 1995.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Shillcock|first1=Francesca |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2020101398971/a-touch-of-frost-david-jason-who-is-his-wife-gill/|title=Who is David Jason married to? All you need to know|date=13 October 2020|work=[[Hello!_(magazine)|Hello!]]|access-date= 28 March 2023}}</ref>

On 26 February 2001, Jason became a father at the age of 61 when his girlfriend, 41-year-old Gill Hinchcliffe, gave birth to a girl in [[Stoke Mandeville Hospital]], [[Aylesbury]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1324288/David-Jasons-new-role-as-father-at-61.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1324288/David-Jasons-new-role-as-father-at-61.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=David Jason's new role as father at 61|date=27 February 2001|work=The Telegraph|access-date=19 November 2009|location=London, UK|first=Richard|last=Alleyne}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Jason and Hinchcliffe married in 2005 and live in [[Ellesborough]], [[Buckinghamshire]].

In 2022, Jason discovered that he had another daughter, of whom he had been previously unaware, who was born in 1970 following a brief relationship with actress Jennifer Hill.<ref name="Indy28323">{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Isobel |title=Surprise is an understatement': David Jason discovers 52-year-old daughter he didn't know existed |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/david-jason-daughter-abi-harris-b2309179.html |access-date=28 March 2023 |work=Independent |date=28 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Media |first=P. A. |date=2023-03-27 |title=David Jason 'delighted' to discover 52-year-old daughter he never knew |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/mar/27/david-jason-delighted-to-discover-52-year-old-daughter-he-never-knew |access-date=2023-03-28 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Jason is a patron of the Shark Trust,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sharktrust.org/en/sir_david_jason|title=The Shark Trust – Sir David Jason|website=sharktrust.org|access-date=17 August 2014|archive-date=19 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819091236/http://www.sharktrust.org/en/sir_david_jason|url-status=dead}}</ref> a United Kingdom registered charity working to advance the worldwide conservation of sharks through science, education, influence and action. He has also been Honorary Vice Patron of the [[Royal International Air Tattoo]] since 1999, and on 29 May 2014, presented a cheque on behalf of the [[Fairford]]-based ''RAF Charitable Trust'' for £125,000 to the British [[Royal Air Force Air Cadets|RAF Air Cadet Organisation]], to fund flight simulators for Air Cadets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/del-boy-marks-trusts-1-million-moment-30052014|title='Del Boy' Marks Trust's £1 Million Moment|first=Jane|last=Leigh|date=30 May 2014|website=raf.mod.uk|access-date=17 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829040013/https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/del-boy-marks-trusts-1-million-moment-30052014|archive-date=29 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Jason is a qualified [[helicopter]] pilot.<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|last=Deacon|first=Michael|title=David Jason: Interview|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3561994/David-Jason-Interview.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3561994/David-Jason-Interview.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=23 December 2011|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=11 October 2008|location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Jason has expressed a negative opinion of the [[European Union]], being quoted in a 2012 interview with "the [[States of Germany|Germans]] want to run [[Europe]]. The irony is that here we are, the world has changed, and the Germans want to run Europe. They failed to do it by war, twice. What is it? Is this the [[Fourth Reich]]?"<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/18/david-jason-only-fools-horses-star-germany-fourth-reich_n_1156239.html | title='At Least We're Not Throwing Bombs at Each Other': Actor David Jason on Germany's 'Fourth Reich' |work=Huffington Post| date=18 December 2011 }}</ref>

In October 2013, he released his [[autobiography]] called ''David Jason: My Life''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10367625/David-Jason-shares-his-Only-Fools-and-Horses-secrets.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013051530/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10367625/David-Jason-shares-his-Only-Fools-and-Horses-secrets.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 October 2013|title=David Jason shares his Only Fools and Horses secrets|date=10 October 2013|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=25 October 2013}}</ref> It was shortlisted for the 2013 [[British Book Awards|Specsavers National Book Awards]] "Best Book of the Year".<ref>{{cite news|title=Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane named 2013 Book of the Year|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-25526847|access-date=9 August 2014|date=27 December 2013}}</ref> A second volume, ''Only Fools and Stories: From Del Boy to Granville, Pop Larkin to Frost'', was published in October 2017. Penguin Books announced ''A Del Of A Life'', which is Jason's third autobiography and was published in October 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2 April 2020|title=A Del Of A Life|url=https://twitter.com/penguinukbooks/status/1245675039510294528?lang=en}}</ref>

In September 2017, it was reported that a "credible threat was made to his life", although it is not known why Jason had been targeted.<ref name="Death threat ">{{Cite news |url=http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/24/david-jason-pictured-arriving-on-set-with-two-security-guards-after-credible-threat-on-his-life-6951921/?ito=fb |title=David Jason pictured arriving on set with two security guards after 'credible threat' on his life |last=Deen |first=Sarah |date=24 September 2017 |work=[[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]] |access-date=24 September 2017}}</ref>