Fans of Ant and Dec‘s Saturday Night Takeaway were left in tears after seeing a mother and daughter reunited after five years apart.
Furthermore, the mother, a woman named Jane from Birkenhead, had never met her grandchild before their reunion. Hand us the Kleenex!
During Thursday night’s broadcast of the ITV show, Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly chose Jane from the crowd for their segment, Spot The Difference.
The goal of the game is simple: the participant must identify what has changed in a scenario provided to them in order to win money.
Jane was taken aback when she saw Capital radio DJ Jordan North sitting in her living room wearing a pink dressing robe.
The live broadcast was momentarily interrupted so that adjustments could be made to the room before resuming, with someone else sitting in Jordan’s place and wearing a mask of his face.
The great surprise, however, was that that person was Jane’s daughter Holly, who had been living in Australia for five years.
At first, Holly was said to be seated in her mother’s living room in Birkenhead, causing a crying Jane to exclaim she couldn’t wait to come home to see her daughter.
Saturday Night Takeaway surprised viewers by recreating Jane’s living area in the studio.
As the stage doors opened, Holly emerged with her partner Lewis and their infant girl, whom Jane had never met before.
Ant led Jane down the stairs to see her family, telling her: ‘Jane follow me because you haven’t been able to see them for five years and you’ve never met your granddaughter so we secretly flew them all the way from Australia so you could say hello.’
The family then exchanged a tender hug. What a fantastic occasion!
Viewers of Saturday Night Takeaway felt the same way.
‘I cried and was in the audience best part of tonight show,’ said Sean.
‘God, I was crying my flipping eyes out. This was such an amazing thing to do,’ added Julie on X.
‘This was amazing, I was bawling! ,’ Hannah also said.
The ITV programme will air its farewell episode next week, after Ant and Dec‘s announcement that it will be on permanent hiatus.
Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway returns on Saturday at 7pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
Source My Celebrity Life.