Gogglebox stars reduced to tears after watching emotional My Mum Your Dad clip
GOGGLEBOX stars were reduced to tears after watching a heart-wrenching clip from My Mum Your Dad.
Friday night saw the likes of all our favourite stars return to our screens for another instalment of the Channel 4 show.
The stars watched a handful of programmes including Welcome to Wrexham, Love & death and Animals up Close With Bertie Gregory.
But it was one show in particular that pulled on all of the viewer’s heartstrings.
An episode of My Mum You Dad which aired on Wednesday, saw contestant Rodger open up about his devastating story of how he became a widow.
During tonight’s episode of Gogglebox, the cast watched Rodger as he broke down during his first date with fellow singleton Caroline and revealed his wife of 30 years had died just 18 months before.
The postman explained that his former spouse Joanne was diagnosed with melanoma four years after she successfully beat breast cancer.
She sadly passed away when the disease spread to her brain.
In her final moments, he described how she went to sleep on the sofa and “never woke up”.
As they watched the heartwrenching clip, the Gogglebox cast broke down in tears and there wasn’t a dry eye in sight.
Moved by Rodger’s scene, an emotional Sue told partner Steve: “Make hay while the bloody sun shines because you don’t know what’s around the corner.”
Married couple Shirley was left sobby as David passed her a tissue to wipe the tears from her face.
Your Mum My Dad is a new ITV series that follows single parents who are nominated by their grown-up kids to give love a second chance,
The dating show, dubbed the ‘middle-aged Love Island, debuted on Monday and drew in a whopping 1.5 million viewers – the same as this summer’s Love Island final.