Nicky Campbell and Davina McCall return for their 14th series of Long Lost Family, reuniting separated relatives in seven emotional episodes.
Despite 13 years hosting the series, Nicky, 63, admits that it hasn’t become any easier to share the news that they have located a long-lost relation. “Scenes of me crying are cut – and quite right too,” he says. “It’s not about us, but it’s inevitable that we get emotional.There are certainly situations where I have.” From siblings who were torn apart by adoption, to mothers who gave up their children as teenagers, the latest series sees more contributors find closure as they are put in touch with family members they have been searching for all their lives. “In the mad world we live in, this show is a balm for the soul,” Nicky says. “I love meeting people and going into that inner sanctum of their lives.
It’s a real privilege. It’s not a presenting job. It’s a mission that myself and Davina both have now – it transcends all that.” The new series features more birth mothers than ever, which hit home for Nicky.The broadcaster was adopted by parents Sheila and Frank after being given up by his biological mother Stella, who he met in 1989. “My own experience was quite difficult and [the show] reminds me a lot about my mum and dad, and my adoptive mum and dad too.There’s that slight division of loyalty, where people think, ‘Should I be doing this?
Am I being disloyal?’ “But it’s absolutely right that people do it because it’s about the child having a right to know. I was really fortunate in that my parents were loving and completely understood.” He adds that he didn’t feel any strong emotions when meeting his birth parents, but that he still found the experience “fulfilling”. “I didn’t.
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