Long Lost Family returns with series 14, and two heartbreaking stories of families divided.
In episode 1 (Monday, July 08, 2024), presenters Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell helped reunite a brother and sister who were torn apart at a young age. Their adoptive parents then lied to them about having no siblings.
Now, decades later, the pair were reunited in emotional scenes…
***Warning: spoilers from Long Lost Family series 14 episode 1 ahead***
Tegan Cornish’s search for her younger brother Kenneth Allen
Episode 1 of Long Lost Family introduced Tegan Cornish, who was desperate to find her missing brother. The pair were adopted together as small children, however her baby brother was sent back into care after just a few weeks.
Looking into her adoption many years later, Tegan was shocked to discover that she had arrived at her new family home as a toddler. Alongside her was her baby brother Kenneth. So why was he returned to foster care when he was just three months old?
Tegan, now 61, subsequently had a difficult and lonely childhood, and yearned to find out what happened to her brother and to have him back in her life.
Tragically, both Tegan and Kenneth were not happily adopted. While Tegan was taunted with the threat that she’d be send back into care if she wasn’t “good”, Kenneth was told he didn’t have any siblings.
Tegan, who now has an adult daughter, grew up in Ealing, West London, with older adoptive parents. She describes feeling a crushing loneliness as a child.
When she was in her 40s, she started to look into her birth family and was shocked to discover that she had a younger brother called Kenneth. She said: “It’’”
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