Big Brother presenter Davina McCall will be fronting a show close to her heart later this year, as she and Nicky Campbell launch their bid to reunite out of touch family members.

The six part series titled ‘Long Lost Family’ will see Davina and Nicky helping people trace their estranged or unknown family members and will start with investigating how the separation arose and follow right through until the emotional reunion.

Former Watchdog presenter Nicky was adopted and is now a patron of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering.

He told The Sun: “I’ve never been so excited about a show in my career. I have a deep emotional connection with it, being an adopted person and having traced my own birth families.

“I can’t wait to work with Davina and help to give people the opportunity to reconnect with relatives missing from their lives.”

Davina McCall added: “I believe that families are the most important part of everyone’s life, and so when I first heard about the ethos of this series I knew I wanted to be involved.”

“The series promises to be heart-warming, emotional and life affirming – just the kind of show I love watching.”

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Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present this new documentary series which traces and reunites long lost family members.

The series helps relatives, some of whom have been searching in vain for many years, find the family members they are desperately seeking. Long Lost Family explores the background and context of each family’s estrangement and tracks the detective work and often complex and emotional process of finding each lost relative before they are reunited.

We are given the unique opportunity to follow the journey of relatives that have spent their lives apart from the very people that should have been nearest and dearest to them – their fathers, mothers, daughters, sons and siblings – even twin sisters, in one case.

Family is, for many people, the most important thing in life, but for some a piece of the jigsaw that makes up their family is missing, which they desperately need to find to feel whole again.
With the help and support of Davina and Nicky each relative is guided and supported through the process of tracing the member of their family they have been desperately seeking, in some cases for most of their lives.
Long Lost Family reveals the background to each case, the social context and reasons why these estrangements occurred, from the single teenage mums who felt unable to keep their babies to the fathers who left and the twin sisters who were separated at birth.
Each of the two intercut stories featured in every episode [12 in total across the series] has incredibly moving moments, from relatives being told the long lost family member has been traced, the decision to agree to a reunion, being shown a photo of them, and the raw moment of the reunion.
The series will afford viewers a revealing insight into the process involved in tracing long lost family members, from many different backgrounds and generations. And the searches often take unpredictable turns, from leads which take in countries far overseas, to discovering that a relative lost for a lifetime has been living only a few miles away all those years.

Many of the people featured in the series were adopted or gave children up for adoption when they were young Wall To Wall worked closely with leading organisations in the adoption field such as NORCAP and independent social worker Ariel Bruce. The protocol devised and worked to throughout the making of Long Lost Family was modelled on the protocols NORCAP and Ariel Bruce work to when searching, contacting and supporting adopted people and birth relatives.

Adoption is personal territory for Nicky Campbell, who was adopted as a child, before searching for and being reunited with his birth mother and father as an adult. Nicky is a patron of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering.

Thursday, 21 April 2011, 9:00PM – 10:00PM ITV1

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Wayne & Shaun

Wayne is a thirty two year old soldier who has just applied for a second tour of duty with the British Army. With a potential call up to Afghanistan looming, he is desperate to meet the father that he has never known. Worrying that he may never meet his birth father if he doesn’t find him before his deployment, Wayne is desperate to fill the gap in his life and discover who his father is, as well as gain an insight into his own identity.

Wayne tells the programme that when he was growing up he always felt different from his family, especially the man he believed was his dad. He says: “My dad was never into the outdoors like me. He never really showed an interest in me wanting to climb up whatever I could, wanting to bike ride from A to B as fast as I could do. I love him and I’ll always honour him, but there was always that feeling of – it’s not there.”

When Wayne was 15 his uncle let slip that the man Wayne thought was his dad was actually his stepdad. He says: “Since I found out, I feel there’s been a hole inside of me, sometimes I feel angry and sometimes I feel just…Who am I?”

The programme reveals the background to Wayne’s story. Wayne’s mother, Diane, lived and grew up in the Nottinghamshire mining village of Newstead some thirty two years ago. After she started seeing a local lad, Shaun Freeman, she soon fell pregnant, but Shaun’s family had a bad reputation. Wayne tells the programme: “I’ve spoken to family members and they say, you know, he was a bit of a rogue.”

News of the pregnancy caused a scandal in this small mining village with Diane’s parents banning Shaun from ever seeing their daughter again.

The only thing about his father that Wayne has managed to establish is that he left Newstead thirty years ago and hasn’t been seen since. He says: “The major mystery for me is who is he, where is he and what did he turn into?”

Davina explains that the search for Wayne’s Dad, Shaun, was going to be particularly difficult as no one knew where he lived, or even how he spelt his first name.

Nicky started the search for Shaun, but with the surname Freeman being so common it looked like a daunting task. However he narrowed the search to Nottinghamshire and managed to track down Shaun’s parents, the first breakthrough in the hunt for Wayne’s biological father. But the search hit a dead end when Shaun’s parents, Harold and Thelma, admitted they hadn’t seen or heard from Shaun in four years.

Nicky reveals that amazingly, the programme received a call from Shaun. He had heard about the search on the grapevine and wanted to meet, and amazingly he was in Nottingham.

Nicky meets up with Shaun and he tells Nicky how hard it was at the time to find out he was going to be a father, he was just a young teenager and came under lots of pressure from his and the mother’s family.

Davina visits Wayne to break the news that his father has been found. When Davina shows him a photo of his dad he tells her: “It’s like looking in a mirror. Some parts of me say, why haven’t you looked? ” Davina explains that Shaun had been worried about getting in touch as he didn’t know how much Wayne had been told, and whether it could be damaging to his son if he made contact.

They arrange to meet on a hill overlooking their old hometown of Newstead, where Shaun disappeared from thirty years ago.

On the way to the reunion, Nicky tells Shaun of his feelings when he met his birth mother for the first time. Shaun explains his nerves on the way to the reunion: “Is it fear? I don’t know if it’s fear because it’s an emotion which I can’t describe because it’s one I’ve never felt before.”

Shaun waits on a bench as Wayne makes the emotional walk up to the hill, where his dad is waiting for him.

As they both speak their first words together, they are moved to tears. Shaun admits: “I don’t know what to do, I don’t know what to say, I don’t know what…bloody hell. It’s beautiful, thank you, ‘cos if it wasn’t for you we wouldn’t be sitting here now.”

Debbie & Jonathan

Debbie is a mum who is desperate to see her son. The last time she saw him was when he was a two month old baby. She was 20 when she gave birth and called her son David. Debbie made a decision 26 years ago to have her baby adopted. “I’ve never had a day in my life that I haven’t thought of him, and to me he has always been my son and will always will be.”

Debbie married at a young age, but there were problems and she was insecure which led to her temporarily separating from her husband. During that period, Debbie, who is white, started seeing a black man who went to the bar where she worked. She fell pregnant but he didn’t want to have anything to do with her and disappeared from her life. While Debbie was still pregnant, she and her husband decided to try to revive their marriage and, since she calculated that there was a slim chance that the baby was his they agreed that if it wasn’t they would look at adoption. Debbie explains: “Going through a pregnancy knowing you’ve got a chance it could be all be OK, or a chance that it would turn out that I wouldn’t be able to keep my baby was a horrible feeling to be honest with you.”

When Debbie gave birth and her new born baby was mixed raced she begged her husband to try raise him as part of their family. But after a few weeks of having the baby at home, he decided he could not continue and the decision was made to have David adopted.

Debbie wrote a letter to David explaining why she had him adopted which she gave to his adoptive parents to give to him when he was old enough, Debbie says: “I just hope that he understands how much I love him and loved him, and will always love him. I hope in some way that letter conveyed that, he never did anything to deserve this.”

But Debbie has never heard from her son, now aged 26, and has been searching for him for almost a decade and says: “I want to know that he has been happy, I so want to know that he has had a good life and I want to ask him not to hate me, to give me a chance to explain.”

Nicky starts the search which should have been straight forward as Debbie knew the names of David’s adopted parents. But she had hit a dead end in the UK and couldn’t find any trace of them. A three month search conducted by the Long Lost Family team finally ended when the team got the news they were hoping for, and that Debbie’s son had been traced. Debbie’s son who is now 26 years old, was found, living in America. His name is Jonathan and he has his own family, wife Rachel and a son called Jordan.

Nicky goes to America to meet Jonathan, who reveals he read Debbie’s letter when he was fifteen years old. Jonathan talks to Nicky about his feelings when he read the letter and says: “It took me hours because I wanted to read every detail of it as it was the only thing I had from my birth mum, so it was the only thing I could know of her.”

Jonathan explains he has been looking for his biological mother for the last 10 years and, overjoyed to learn that she has been desperately searching for him, he agrees to a reunion.

After meeting Jonathan, who flew over from the US to be reunited with his birth mother, Debbie says: “I just wanted to touch him like a mother would and just hold him. He totally felt like he was mine, he was my son.”

Thursday, 28 April 2011, 9:00PM – 10:00PM, ITV1

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If, like me, you had to have a box of tissues at the ready – and for Roy Chubby Brown fans, I know exactly what you’re thinking! – for each edition of Long Lost Family last year, you may want to buy several in advance, as series two promises more harrowing and heart wrenching stories than we’ve seen to date.

Presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, who was himself adopted as a child, the second year of Long Lost Family sees them reuniting families all over the globe.

Of the new series, Davina said, ”If you thought series one was emotional, you’ve not seen anything yet.

”The stories we’ve unearthed this time round will tug at your heart-strings like never before. Get ready to start stockpiling those tissues!”

And last year, Nicky said of the show, “‘I’ve never been so excited about a show in my career…

“I have a deep emotional connection with it, being an adopted person and having traced my own birth families.”

In the course of series two, we’ll see Nicky jetting off to South Africa, American, Spain and France to reunite family members who, for whatever reasons, lost touch with each other decades ago.

And for some, the reunions are with members of their family who they’ve never even met before.

The first episode of series two features two stories of babies given up for adoption by their mothers, a man who’s spent over a decade searching for his mum, and a woman who’s spent her entire life needing to make amends for something that happened when she was a young girl.

When asked what it is that’s made Long Lost Family so popular with viewers, Davina said, “It’s about relationships and love and fear and forgiving…

“It doesn’t matter whether you’ve lost somebody or you’re trying to find somebody, or if you weren’t adopted, we can all relate to those feelings.

“I think even if we can’t necessarily relate exactly to the story, we can all identify with what that person is feeling or going through and it’s in all of us.”

Of the new series, Davina added, “We met this lovely lady called Maureen from Liverpool.

“Her mother had left her when she was little and obviously that side of me really related to her.

“She had an extremely tough life because her dad hadn’t been able to take care of her and she went into care.

“I don’t want to give away too much of her story but I particularly loved talking to her and felt that I uplifted her.

“It’s quite intense when you share a moment like that with somebody.

“Nicky’s going through all those emotions almost every five minutes at the reunions where he relives his moment finding his mother.”

She added, “I love Nicky. We have these amazing moments when we hook up in a café somewhere or in the car after the reunions.

“It’s always lovely to see him, and hang out with him and it’s always really nice to hear his side of the story.

“Sometimes he’ll call me and say there’s a really amazing story, I’ve just been here and spoken to this person, tell me what happens from your side when you do it.

“It’s been great getting to know him actually, he’s such a lovely guy and fiercely intelligent.”

Don’t miss the premiere episode of series two of Long Lost Family on Thursday, April 12 at 9pm on ITV1.

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In an exclusive interview with The Sun’s TV Buzz magazine, TV presenter Davina McCall has revealed that her mother was too immature to take care of her as a child.

Davina – who of course presents a number of shows, including The Biggest Loser, The Million Pound Drop, Got to Dance and Long Lost Family – also discussed how her varied TV career fulfils her ambitions.

She said, “My current TV shows all give me something different…

“The Biggest Loser fulfils my thirst to get the nation fit, while Got To Dance takes me back to my clubbing days when I used to jump with joy – there’s still nothing quite as powerful as an entire room pogoing to an amazing tune.

“The Million Pound Drop serves my need for the excitement of live TV, and Long Lost Family almost needs no explanation.”

Davina then revealed how her French mother – who walked out on Davina when she was just three years old – struggled to cope with raising her…

She said, “I think my mum did love me because she gave birth to me, but she couldn’t take care of me and that’s the thing you look to mums for.

“My eldest daughter [Holly] wrote in my last Mother’s Day card: ‘I love our chats.’ I didn’t get the chats with my mum.

“I had to give her the chats. I’d be like: ‘You can’t wear that, Mum!’ I was Ab Fab’s Saffy and she was Edina”.

Davina then shared one particularly painful memory. She said, “There was an electric-blue, fake-fur coat she used to wear…

“One time she went out in it with nothing underneath – just a pair of high heels – then she’d do the odd flash.”

Davina then revealed that as a teenager, she and her mum were reunited, but it was not a healthy relationship.

She said, “She’d take me clubbing…and then go off to buy some weed while I was left in my little pink Holiday-era Madonna dress and lace gloves, trying to be grown up with a bunch of pervy guys who thought I was 16.

“I was scared, but I tried to pretend it was cool that she’d left…

“Then I’d return to England, tell my friends I’d been to a club and they’d think it was really cool, so I wouldn’t tell them I didn’t enjoy it. It was so complex.”

And of how the difficulties she encountered as a child have affected her in adulthood, Davina said, “It has probably made me try to be a perfectionist, but I’m a bit more gentle on myself now.

“If I’m late to pick them up from school – which is very rare – I don’t beat myself up about it. I used to cry if I was late because my mum was late for me.

“But I have realised now that I’m not my mother. I keep thinking as long as I give them a good foundation, even if they go off the rails, they’ll come back.

“I can’t stop them doing anything. I can’t stay with them 24/7. But I can give them a really solid grounding.”

And of her plans for the future, Davina said, “I’ve got this idea that’s like a Jeremy Kyle show, but nicer.

“I’m just waiting for the right place to put it, but it’d be lovely and we would all learn something from it”.

But when asked if there are any career opportunities she’d turn down, Davina said, “The only shows I won’t do are ones that would take me away from the kids for weeks at a time. Or ones to do with marriage.

“Marriage is such a precious nugget of loveliness and I’ve never known a TV show about marriage to work.”

Davina is of course married to TV presenter Matthew Robertson, and she’s very careful about keeping her professional and private lives separate.

She said, “I draw the line between TV life and personal life at my front door.

“I get out of the car, walk up the path, go through the front door and then I’m Mrs Robertson, mother of three, wife of one. And that’s it!”

But she admitted, “The other day my son Chester called me ‘Davina McCall’ and laughed out loud.

“I said: ‘Don’t call me that, I don’t like it!’ That’s alien. It’s two very different people.”

You can read the full interview in this weekend’s edition of TV Buzz, which is free with The Sun. You can also visit the TV Buzz Facebook page by clicking here.

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A bunch of new and returning comedy shows lead the way as we look at next week’s TV highlights.

Community (Sony Entertainment Television, Tues, 10:30pm)
I don’t think many readers would’ve caught Community Series One when it aired of Freeview channel Viva hopefully it will get more of a following on digital channel Sony Entertainment Television (Channel 157). The brilliant off-the-wall American sitcom is set in Greendale Community College and follows a group of students who all become friends after they all become part of the same study group. The cast includes star of E!’s The Soup Joel McHale as manipulative former lawyer Jeff, The Hangover’s Ken Jeong as teacher turned student Ben Chang and comedy legend Chevy Chase as moist towel magnate Piers. What makes Community so great is the whacky plot strands whether it be the Claymation Christmas special, a Dungeons and Dragons special or a two-part season finale based around a paintball tournament the show does have a humour all of its own. I would say if you are a fan of either 30 Rock or Arrested Development then Community is definitely for you but don’t worry if you missed Season One as it won’t take long to settle in at Greendale and once you’re there you’ll never want to leave.

The Matt Lucas Awards (BBC1, Tues, 10:35pm)
For most people Matt Lucas is best associated with a cavalcade of grotesque characters such as Vicky Pollard and Daffyd Thomas but in his new show he wanted to get away from character-driven comedy to be himself. The Matt Lucas Awards is partly based on his Radio 2 show And The Winner Is in which awards are given in unusual categories such as Smuggest Nation of People. On Paper The Matt Lucas Awards sounds like a panel show however there are sitcom elements as there is a mock-up of Matt’s flat complete with his own mother Diana and there are also hints of a chat show as Matt has his own in-house band fronted by David Arnold. There’s no denying Lucas is an intriguing presence and there are a some very entertaining guests including Jason Manford and Graeme Garden so hopefully this will be a memorable show rather than just another panel show.

Long Lost Family (ITV1, Thurs, 9pm)
The only non-comedy on the list, unless you’ve got a very depraved sense of humour, the programme in which people try to hunt down their long-lost relatives is back for a second series. Combining elements of Who Do You Think You Are? and Surprise Surprise this programme sees Nicky Campbell trying to track down parents of adopted children then Davina McCall swoops in to reunite them. In this first episode the pair try and help Stella to track down Maxine the daughter she gave up fifty years ago when she could no longer look after her on her own. In addition to this Mark tries to find the mother who gave him up after forty years so he can find out exactly why she did it. Long Lost Family isn’t an exploitative series instead it sets out to do its best to help those involve build bridges and reunite lost loved ones. For some people this is certainly a series that you’ll need a box of tissues close to you just in case you feel the tears start to pour.

Derek (C4, Thurs, 10pm)
Following the critically panned Life’s Too Short it seems that Ricky Gervais is trying something new with a tender comedy-drama about Derek Noakes a sad man who works in a retirement home. Gervais’ whipping boy Karl Pilkington co-stars here as Derek’s co-worker and only friend Dougie. From the trailers it seems that Derek is a lot more low-key than Gervais’ most recent series as at times this veers to drama rather than comedy exploring characters that are often ostracised by society with Derek being obsessed by autograph hunting. For now Derek is only a one-off affair however I’m guessing if the ratings and reviews are mainly positive Channel 4 will let Gervais role this out into a full series.

Would I Lie To You?, Have I Got News For You, Not Going Out (BBC1, Fri, 8:30pm onwards)
BBC1 revives its Friday night comedy line-up with three of its strongest shows being presented back to back, before Twenty Twelve airs on BBC2 at 10, you’re especially in luck if you’re a Lee Mack. Mack is up first along with David Mitchell and Rob Brydon for a new series of hyper of Would I Lie to You? which this week includes guests such as Chris Tarrant and Alexander Armstrong. For me the best parts of WILTY are definitely those involving the inter-play between Mitchell and Mack as they try to unravel the lies that each are telling. Following this is the original panel show Have I Got News For You now in its 22nd year it is as fresh as it was when it started but that’s mainly due to the fact that politicians will keep on doing stupid things. Stephen Magnan is this week’s guest host with the panellists being columnist Grace Dent and comic Miles Jupp but again this is all about the captains as we all know it’s the Hislop and Merton show.
Finishing things off is the return of Not Going Out which is written by and starring Lee Mack alongside his old buddy Tim Vine. What I love about Not Going Out is its old-fashioned feel concentrating more on jokes than story-telling with lots of smut and word-play along the way. In the opening episode of the fifth series straight-laced Tim joins a band with his sister Lucy then falling for the lead guitarist so a jealous Lee also decides to rock out. A good way to end a triple bill of comedy which will have you chuckling throughout its 90 minutes.

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Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return to ITV to present the third series of the award-winning show Long Lost Family. The heart-warming eight part series attempts to trace and reunite families who have been apart for most of their lives.

In the first programme, fireman Alan Ross-Harper is searching for his birth mother who gave him up for adoption in 1958. All he has to cling onto is his adoption file which gives a few details of the mother he is desperate to find. Alan informs us that it was only when his wife gave birth to their first child that it really hit home what his birth mother must have gone through when she gave him up.

The programme’s search for Alan’s mum was long and difficult but eventually she was traced to New Zealand where she lives. Nicky visits the family to tell them of Alan’s search and Alan’s mum reveals that she has never stopped thinking about Alan. So Davina and Nicky set about reuniting the mother and son that haven’t seen each other for most of their lives.

Also this week 68 year old Susan is searching for her daughter who she gave up for adoption when she was 21. For almost fifty years Sue has carried the pain of this with her and has held onto the hope that she would one day find her daughter. Susan was forced to give up her daughter after she was deserted by her married lover after revealing she was pregnant. More than anything else, Susan is desperate to know that her daughter had a better life that the one she could’ve offered.

Nicky manages to track down Susan’s daughter Kerry, whose name has now been changed to Andrea, and gives her the letter her birth mother has written to her. Despite having had wonderful adoptive parents, Susan’s letter stirs up feelings in Andrea that she never knew she had. So once again the team arrange a meeting between the mother and daughter.

Long Lost Family starts tonight on ITV at 9pm

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In the latest edition of Long Lost Family, Nicky Campbell and Davina McCall travel the globe to reunite a daughter with her father and a mother with her son.

36 year old Wendy grew up with her mother Sarah in Northern Ireland. One night her mother told her that her father was an American sailor named Grant, and armed with that information Wendy now wants to track him down. After learning that her grandfather had intercepted the letters sent between Sarah and Grant, Wendy now wants to use any information to track her father down. The Long Lost Family team eventually track him down in the New Mexico town of Albuquerque and tell him of his daughter’s wish to reunite with him.

Though Helen Harrison has two grown-up sons, she never forgot about her first son that she had to give up thirty-five years ago. After becoming pregnant at aged 16, Helen realised that the only way to give her son any sort of life was to put him up for adoption. Working with a specialist adoption support agent, Long Lost Family tracks down Helen’s son Dave and informs of his mother’s wish to meet up with him.

Both of these heart-warming stories conclude with the meetings that all parties have been waiting for for many decades.

Long Lost Family continue tonight on ITV at 9pm

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Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return helping to reunite relatives after years of separation. Tonight’s episode sees a pair of brothers attempting to track down their father and a daughter desperate to reunite with her mother.

David and Paul are two brothers from Liverpool searching for their father who they last saw more than 30 years ago. Their father Dave once worked in the mining industry and their family moved to South Africa when the boys were younger as there were more job opportunities out there for younger men. However, when the country became embroiled in political unrest, Dave and his wife decided to return to Liverpool. Dave later separated from his wife and moved back to South Africa on his own, and since then the boys have hardly heard from him.

Long Lost Family traces Dave to a mining area northwest of Johannesburg where he works for a platinum mine. Nicky travels to South Africa to discover why he has not been a part of his boys’ lives. Nicky learns that David has also been trying to contact his sons, but found it impossible as they changed their surnames when their mother remarried. So after contacting both parties, Long Last Family sets the stage for another tearful reunion.

Also this week, single mother Julia Evans is attempting to track down the mother who had disappeared when she was a baby. Whenever Julia had asked her strict Catholic father about her mother she had simply been told that her mother was a sinner. Unfortunately, Julia’s search is one that has a few bad moments but there is ultimately some light at the end of the tunnel when she is able to be reunited with some new family members.

Long Lost Family continues tonight on ITV at 9pm

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In the fourth episode of the new series, Nicky Campbell and Davina McCall hope to reunite a mother with the daughter she gave away and a son with the mother who gave him up over fifty years ago.

55 year old Lawrence has always wondered about the mother who gave him up for adoption when he was only a few months old. After the breakdown of several important relationships in his life, Lawrence thinks its time to track down his birth mother but has only been able to make tentative steps with the information he has. Thankfully, Long Lost Family is able to identify his mother only to find out that she passed away some years ago. But they do find out that Lawrence has a sister, Wendy who is shocked when she learns of his existence but is eager to meet him.

Also this week, 63 year old Denise is desperate to find the daughter she gave up when she was just a teenager. Following the untimely death of her father, Denise went out with several unsuitable men and ended up having a baby at just sixteen. Though she tried her best to care for her daughter, who she named Debbie, ultimately she thought the best thing for Debbie was to be adopted by a family who could provide the sort of home that Denise couldn’t.

It does take the Long Lost Family to track down Denise’s daughter, who now lives in Northamptonshire and goes by the name of Susan. Susan informs Nicky that she only learnt that she was adopted when she was 21 and, at the time, did attempt to track down her birth mother but the search proved fruitless. As both learn more about the other it seems the scene is set for another emotional reunion.

Long Lost Family continues tonight at 9pm on ITV

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In the latest episode of Long Lost Family, Davina and Nicky deal with a first as a pair of twin sisters attempt to find their brothers, who were adopted by their mother, and who oddly are also twins.

Gail and Juliet Newmarch are attempting to find the twin boys that their mother Pauline gave up when the girls were just five years old. After the details were revealed to a teenage Juliet, she tried to get her mother to open up about the event but she refused to go into detail or reveal who the father was.

The girls decided to wait until their parents had passed away before they attempted to track down their brothers, but hit a brick wall when they couldn’t find out any information about their adoption. However, using an specialist intermediary, the programme tracks down the brothers and so the stage is set for another emotional reunion.

Also, in one of the toughest missions for the programme yet, Robert tries to track down the mother who disappeared from his life when he was just a toddler. The search takes the programme all the way to Australia where they finally find Robert’s mother Jean.

Long Lost Family continues tonight on ITV at 9pm

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Tonight’s Long Lost Family sees a reunion that’s been over fifty years in the making as seventy-six year old Polly Gillon searches for the son she gave up for adoption when she was in her twenties.

Three months into her first serious relationship, Polly became pregnant and when she told her boyfriend he wasn’t interested and split up with her. Meanwhile, Polly’s overbearing father told her to give up the baby when it was born. Although she really wanted to keep her son, she decided it was best for him if she gave him up and now, fifty years later, she wants to find him and beg his forgiveness.

The search for Polly’s son takes Nicky to Raumati Beach in New Zealand where Polly’s son Steve has lived since he was 12. As Nicky recounts Polly’s story to Steve, he is horrified and it seems as if a tearful reunion is once again on the cards.

Also tonight Chris Jones searches for the younger sister that his mother Velma gave up for adoption following the car crash that killed his father.

Long Lost Family continues tonight on ITV at 9pm

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When she was aged 11, Sharon Temple-Sowerby learnt for the first time that she was adopted. Though she’d had a loving childhood, Sharon now feels the time is right to find the woman who’d given birth to her.

The only issue is that the adoption wasn’t a formal one and instead Sharon’s birth mother Ann had handed her daughter over to adoptive mother Elizabeth who couldn’t have a baby on her own. Due to the fact that no official paperwork for the adoption exists, the team hit a dead end and for the first time in Long Lost Family history no trace is able to be made. Davina is forced to break the bad news to Sharon, but she does have a better announcement namely that Sharon has a brother named Adrian.

Like Sharon, Adrian was also adopted, after being taken into care aged six after suffering violence at the hands of his step-father. As Adrian’s was an official adoption, the Long Lost Family team are able to use his social services file to find more information about Ann. Finally, after months of searching, the team finally track Ann down to an address in Kent.

Ann is delighted to have been found and desperate to see both her daughter and her son. So the stage is set for one of the most tearful reunions in Long Lost Family history.

Long Lost Family continues tonight on ITV at 9pm

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