Long Lost Family: What Happened Next

The first episode catches up with Julie Roberts who reunited with her birth mother Marion last year leading to an incredible revelation. “Finding mum was amazing but for her it’s been the start of a new search.” explains Julie. The second story follows Christina Barlow as she travels 5000 miles to Colombia to spend time with the birth parents, who gave her up in extreme circumstances. On this trip Christina spends time with her full siblings, who never knew she existed.

Episode 2 follows three families who have faced challenges building their new relationships. Our first story catches up with Brenda Rhensius who approached us 8 years ago hoping to find her daughter Joanne. Amazingly, both mother and daughter now lived in South Africa and we were able to reunite them in Cape Town. In our second story, we catch up with former England rugby player Spencer Brown and his sister Margot who were reunited last year. Separated as infants, Spencer and Margot had very different experiences growing up; he had a happy, loving adoption, while she spent time in care. Our third reunion was not originally shown on Long Lost Family because the situation was too sensitive for the cameras. It’s only now, three years after the family first met, that they feel ready to share their extraordinary experience.

We catch up with two families; a woman who wants to track down her two other children who she gave away, and a daughter returning to Colombia to live with her new family.