Long Lost Family concludes its What Happened Next? series on ITV on Monday, August 22 with a look at what happened to the former football star who was reunited with his birth mother. In the third and final episode, the team revisit Dominic Matteo, the former Liverpool FC player, now 48, who was inspired to find his birth mother, Maggie, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour in late 2019.
During his original episode, it was revealed that Dominic's adoption file helped the Long Lost Family team track down Maggie, as it had her name and original address stated as Glasgow. They discovered that she was still living in Scotland and host Nicky Campbell went to meet her.
Maggie told Nicky that she was 17 years old when she gave Dominic up and also revealed that she was “overwhelmed” to discover that he was a Premier League football player whom she had watched on television. Upon finding out from co-host Davina McCall about his birth mother, Dominic broke down in tears and called it “incredible news”. He said: “It means the world to me. All I ever wanted to know is that she was okay.”
