The 37-year-old singer recently came under attack for swearing too much during his current tour with Take That, but he argued that it is all down to being raised in a bar.
He told The Sun, 'I was born and raised for the first three years of my life in a pub.
'One of my first words was f*** and one of my first sentences was, 'Give me a f****** Harvey Wallbanger, please'.'
He added, 'I didn't get one.'
The Angels hitmaker, who is married to Ayda Field, admitted that he even managed to upset lifelong friend Jonathan Wilkes and his wife Nicky by teaching their five-year-old son Mickey a naughty word.
'I taught him a game called 'it's the s***'. It involved throwing a sock over the balcony and shouting, 'It's the s***' every time it landed. They weren't happy,' he said.
Talking about his own future family, he continued, 'I wonder what I'll think when my little ones ask to watch Dora The f****** Explorer, and Ayda looks at me shaking her head?'