Davina McCall issued an apology to ITV viewers on Monday night, as, while the host was late tuning in, they were already in flood of tears watching Long Lost Family: Born Without A Trace.
The award-winning spin off of Long Lost Family focuses on 'foundling' babies, often abandoned in the first days and weeks of their lives, who then spend years after years searching for answers on just who they are and why their parents abandoned them. Born without trace, with no birth record or name, they have had no way of discovering the basic facts of their identity.
However, for the last five years, Davina, co-star Nicky Campbell and the rest of the Born Without a Trace team have been combining genetic genealogy with DNA technology to try to help more than 30 foundlings unlock the secrets of their past and the first episode of series five proved to be incredibly moving viewing.
