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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Guardian readers and Alfie Packham

‘I find myself weeping after almost every scene’: how seminal show 7 Up has touched your lives

The cast of 7 Up stand smiling together in two rows for a group photo
‘Changed my life’ … The participants gather for 7 Up’s final season, 70 Up. Photograph: ITV/Nick Wall/Shutterstock

ITV’s landmark 7 Up documentary series has launched its final outing after 63 years. The show started following the lives of 10 boys and four girls in England when they were seven years old, and has returned every seven years since.

As the final season 70 Up reaches its conclusion, seven people tell us what it has meant to them over the decades – along with pictures of themselves contrasting their appearance now with their childhood selves.

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