This ITV hit could easily be a misery-fest, but the reunion between foundlings Thomas and Martina was deeply emotional without being ghoulish
Davina McCall and foundling Thomas Yeo, who was left as a baby in the waiting room of Reading train station in 1965
Remarkably, it does so without ever coming across as exploitative or crass. It might be a ratings hit for ITV, butspin-off, now into its fifth series, which connects “foundlings” with their estranged relations. “It doesn’t take away from the happy childhood,” he said. “I just want to know when I was born, where I was born. Where I came from, basically.” Enter McCall and Campbell.A DNA search uncovered the first shock: Thomas had a first cousin, Martina, in Dublin. Thomas’s mother and Martina’s father were revealed to be sister and brother in small-town Ireland. In an astonishing turn of events, it turned out she was also a foundling, left on the steps of a church a week before Christmas in 1967.
Once pregnant, it was unthinkable that Peggy could go back to Leitrim. “To have been an unmarried mother would have been a great disgrace,” said a cousin of Thomas’s. But having given away her baby she didn’t want to stay in the UK, either, and a year after Thomas’s birth she went to Australia; she never had any more children and never returned home.The team had uncovered a photograph of Peggy and Thomas blinked away as he saw his birth mother for the first time.
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