Award-winning ITV show’s return confirmed with heartbreaking new stories – and it’s just days away
AN award-winning ITV show looks set to return after 13 series and a slew of spin-offs.
Fans are often left in tears at the emotionally-charged programme and it is unlikely to be any different this time around.
Long Lost Family follows the heartbreaking cases of children who have no knowledge of who their biological parents can be.
It seems them put their faith in DNA and genealogy tests in a bid to reunite them with their birth relatives.
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell front the show and provide a shoulder to cry on during the deeply personal moments.
They are assisted by the show’s expert Ariel Bruce who attempts to crack the cases and get to the bottom of a person’s story – no matter how difficult.
Now, the show looks set to do it all again with a brand new series confirmed.
It will kick off a run of new episodes on Monday 8 July at 9pm.
A recent episode of the show’s spin-off series, Born Without Trace, left fans in tears as the harrowing story of a women forced to abandon FOUR babies was told.
One of the programme’s guests, Martina Everdean, discovered the shocking truth that her mother, Peggy, had to abandon four children over a 22-year period.
The shame of being an unmarried woman across the 1940s, 50s and 60s in religious Ireland meant that she would have been shunned and Peggy was seen as a “social disgrace” according to Ariel Bruce.
Peggy had given birth for the first time aged 19 and her parents had sent her to the notorious Sean Ross Abbey.
Sean Ross Abbey was a church which featured a mother and baby unit between the 1930s and 1970s.
Since the closure of the unit, a slew of shocking truths about the facility have come to light which saw many of the unmarried mothers and babies mistreated.
It is understood almost 1,100 ‘illegitimate children’ died whilst at Sean Ross.
READ even more about Martina and her long-lost cousin Tom’s story in The Sun’s exclusive here.