Reuniting lost souls

LONG LOST FAMILY: PUTTING PEOPLE BACK IN TOUCH WITH EACH OTHER

Hostess Davina McCall talks about what it’s like working on the show.

Davina McCall returns in September as a cohost of the popular ITV Choice series Long Lost Family, in which she and Nicky Campbell reunite more family members with their missing relatives that they have been desperately searching for and answering questions that have haunted people for years. – Citizen reporter

This is the sixth series of Long Lost Family. What do you think is the secret behind its enduring popularity?

What I still love about Long Lost Family is that every series there seems to be a new wave of people who still haven’t seen it before but want to know what everyone is talking about. I also think we keep it very fresh every series, there’s always a different slant.

There’s always something quite extraordinary that happens because, as I’m realising the older I get, everybody has a story. We’ve just got to find it.

Also, this need to feel a part of something, to feel a part of a family, is what gives us roots and grounds us. It’s just part of our DNA. I just think the nation can empathise with everybody, even if they haven’t been through exactly what they’ve been through.

It is just so phenomenally moving and it never ever gets boring.