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Metro
02-07-2025
- Metro
Woman abandoned at birth meets dad who 'never knew she existed' 24 years later
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A woman who was abandoned as a newborn has found her birth father with the help of ITV show Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace. Sarah Meyer was left in the stairwell of a Surrey car park in 2001 and is now the youngest person to search for a relative on the show, which is hosted by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell. Shortly after Sarah was abandoned, she appeared on ITV's This Morning as a newborn baby in a bid to track down her parents. Dubbed the 'Baby in Pink' due to the pink towel she was wrapped in, Sarah was on the show with police sergeant Wendy Whiting, who was the first officer on the scene when she was found. Judy Finnegan, who hosted This Morning at the time alongside Richard Madely, told viewers: 'This little sprog was abandoned in a multi-story car park. She was barely an hour old, weighing just 7lbs.' But despite the public appeal, Sarah's parents never came forward. She was adopted at the age of three months by Jo and Pierre, who already had another adopted daughter, Jess. 24 years later, Sarah, who has a degree in cyber security and now lives in Northern Ireland with her girlfriend, is returning to TV screens in tonight's episode of Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace. On the show, she was able to find out more about her birth parents after DNA tracing located them. 'I'd like an explanation because it is something that is missing…to know where I come from…why was I abandoned?' Sarah says in the episode, during which she returns to the car park where she was found for the first time. After she was found, police sent infant Sarah straight to the hospital, where nursing staff took her under their wing. 'I was named Caroline after the nurse who looked after me, and Pembrooke after my car park. It's like a little secret identity of mine. It's a part of my history, which is very important to me. Even with my name now, my middle name is Caroline,' Sarah reveals. From a box of police evidence, Sarah reads a letter sent to the police ten days after she was found: 'Please look after my little girl. I love her so much, but just can't cope with another baby. Thank you to all the police officers involved, hospital staff, and the members of the public for their help. Thank you.' The Long Lost Family team managed to track down Sarah's birth mother, who was in her late teens when Sarah was born, but she did not wish to appear in the episode. Sarah says: 'It's good to hear that she's at least alive and is out there. It leaves the door open for her to come and meet me if she wants to. And I'll never close that door…I want her to see that I've lived a good life, and I want her to see that I'm not angry with her.' However, Sarah's father was keen to meet her. He had no idea that she had been born, and wondered if his late mother would have seen her granddaughter and not known it, as she'd worked at the hospital unit where Sarah was taken to. His identity is obscured in the episode to protect Sarah's birth mother. He explains it's been hard to process both that he didn't know about Sarah and that he wasn't there for her, adding that he was 'a bit of a lad back then' and that his encounter with Sarah's birth mother was brief. Long Lost Family host Nicky Campbell told Sarah's father about her adoption, and he noticed the resemblance between them after being shown a photograph. On Monday, Sarah returned to This Morning to give hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard an update after she met her birth father. Watching a clip from her appearance on the show in 2001, she said: 'It was crazy seeing that again and being back here…It's insane, full circle, because I've been able to find my birth parents.' She added that she'd always known her story, revealing that her foster parents had shown her clips and newspaper articles from her past. 'Any questions I've had, they answered,' she said, 'I love them for that.' Discussing her motivation for appearing on Long Lost Family, Sarah said that as well as wanting answers about her past: 'I wanted to show who is out there that I had a good life…I wanted to show them that I am ok.' More Trending And speaking about her birth father, she revealed: 'The fact that me and him are so alike is insane… for him to welcome me into his family the way he did was insane.' Meanwhile, Sarah reiterated that 'the door is always open' for her birth mother to get in touch. 'I've had 24 years of being able to process my story. She's had just this short amount of time to process it, so it's gonna be a long time and I understand that, and I will give her that time,' she said. View More » Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace airs tonight at 9pm on ITV1. Got a story? 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Daily Mirror
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Parents of hour-old baby abandoned in multi-story car park finally tracked down
Sarah Meyers was dubbed the 'Baby in Pink' because she was left wrapped in a pink towel. Now she's the youngest ever searcher on Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace Abandoned in a multistory carpark at barely an hour old, wrapped in a pink towel, Sarah Meyer is now the youngest ever searcher on ITV 's hit show Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace. Dubbed the 'Baby in Pink' in the press, Sarah was found as a newborn in the car park in Camberley, Surrey, in 2001, wrapped in a pink towel and white shawl inside a holdall. The discovery sparked a nationwide search for her mother, with a police sergeant even appearing with Sarah on This Morning with Judy Finnegan. Judy said: 'This little sprog was abandoned in a multi-story carpark. She was barely an hour old, weighing just 7lbs.' But sadly, despite many appeals, Sarah's birth mother did not come forward, and Sarah was adopted at three months by Jo and Pierre, who already had an adopted daughter Jess. In emotional scenes to be screened on an upcoming episode of Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace, 24-year-old Sarah tries to find out her birth story. Hosted by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, the spin-off helps foundlings, people left as babies, often in extraordinary places such as a phone box, a cardboard box or on church steps. It was revealed that when Sarah was found, her umbilical cord had been cut, but it hadn't been clamped, which suggests it could have been a home birth. Police sent Sarah straight to hospital, where nursing staff took her under their wing. Sarah, who still has the towel and holdall, says: 'On the news, I was the Baby in Pink because I was in the pink towel wrapped in the blanket. 'I was named Caroline after the nurse who looked after me and Pembrooke after my car park. It's like a little secret identity of mine. Now my middle name is Caroline.' Sarah and her sister Jess were always told they were adopted. She says: 'I want my birth parents to know that they shouldn't feel any remorse because I've had a wonderful life. But I'd like an explanation because it is something that is missing, to know where I come from. Why was I abandoned?' In the show, Sarah returns to the car park where she was found and notices she was left in a busy area and wonders who actually left her. She says: 'I was an evening baby and 30 minutes to an hour old. So I was literally fresh out of the womb.' In a police evidence box, Sarah also has a letter, sent to the police ten days after she was found - but the typed, unstamped letter gave no clues. It reads: 'Please look after my little girl. I love her so much, but just can't cope with another baby. Thank you to all the police officers involved, hospital staff, and the members of the public for their help. Thank you.' Sarah meets up with Police Sergeant Wendy Whiting, who was the first on the scene and stayed across the case. Wendy, who reveals the lady who found Sarah at first thought she was a bomb, says: 'I remember the radio message coming out and thinking, 'Did I just hear that right?' An abandoned baby, no clothes on, we were concerned.' Given that Sarah is only 24, the LLF research team quickly manages to discover significant news - they track down both Sarah's birth parents. Sarah's birth mother was in her late teens when Sarah was born and already had a child. Unfortunately, being found has proved difficult and she doesn't respond to the team's approach. Sarah, who now lives in Northern Ireland with her partner Shannon and has a cybersecurity degree, says: 'It's good to hear that she's at least alive and is out there. It leaves the door open for her to come and meet me if she wants to. I'll never close that door. I respect that it's such a big thing for her. I understand that she might not be ready. I want her to see that I've lived a good life and that I'm not angry with her.' In more positive news, Sarah's father, who has a partner and daughter, reveals he had no idea that she existed but would be thrilled to get to know her. Staying anonymous to protect the birth mother's identity, he is choked with emotion as he says: 'It's very hard to process, that I didn't know, that I wasn't there. 'It's very upsetting to know that my daughter was just left there in that situation. Anything could have happened to her.' He wonders if his late mother, who worked on the hospital unit where Sarah would have been taken, might have seen her baby granddaughter. In true Long Lost Family style, there is an exchange of photos and then a tearful reunion as Sarah finally meets her birth father, and the pair notice physical similarities as well as common interests. He says: 'My daughters can get to know each other and we can all be a family together.' Sarah adds: 'I've been waiting a long time, I just didn't think it would be possible. He was as I imagined and more, beyond what I expected. I can't wait to get to know him more. The past is in the past and the adventure is only beginning.' *Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace continues on ITV on Wednesdays at 9pm.
Daily Mirror
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
TODAY'S TV WITH SARA WALLIS: Long Lost Family helps a man who was left outside toilet block as baby
In another emotional instalment, two people who are foundlings, tell Davina and Nicky their stories and hope to trace family Every single story from Long Lost Family could be turned into a daytime sobathon movie in its own right. Pretty much every episode leaves viewers weeping into their wine, and this show is the perfect example of a cast-iron format that nails it every time. Davina McCall is walking along a coastline in a coat we all want to buy immediately. She tells us the sad story of someone searching for their relative. Cut to said person's kitchen and Davina has news. Pause. She produces a photo. Maybe even a letter. Everyone is in floods of tears, and that's before the reunion even happens. Kleenex anyone? Elsewhere, Nicky Campbell is providing a shoulder to cry on, while someone spits into a test tube. The spin-off series, Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace (tonight June 18, ITV, 9pm) focuses on foundlings, people left as babies, often in the most extraordinary places and in the first hours or days of life. We've heard about babies left in cardboard boxes, on doorsteps, at churches, in hospital car parks, and in one case a London phone box and even under a hedge. In tonight's emotional episode, Simon Prothero tells how he was found as a newborn in the summer of 1966 in the outside toilet block of a children's home in Neath, Wales. Simon, who was adopted and grew up 10 miles away, says: 'I don't know where I was born, when I was born, what the circumstances were. I don't know who my mother is.' As the team cracks into action, it's especially sad as we learn that Simon's adoptive parents and his wife Helen have died, but a DNA search connects to a large family from North Wales. Watch out for the moment Simon discovers his birth mother is alive and in her 80s, though she's not yet ready for contact. In another story, Lisa Dyke tells how she was discovered as a newborn in May 1969, just a few hours old, outside a health clinic in Christchurch, Dorset. She'd been put into another baby's pram. She says: 'Why was I left in another child's pram? Who left me? I just want to know the truth.' Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace is airing on ITV tonight at 9pm. There's plenty more on TV tonight - here's the best of the rest.. RACE ACROSS THE WORLD, BBC1, 9pm It's been emotional, as five intrepid pairs have taken on the 14,000km race of a lifetime, from the Great Wall of China to the southern tip of India. In the end, mother and son Caroline and Tom took first place in a hard-fought win. Six months later, the contestants meet for the first time in this reunion episode, sharing their greatest highs and agonising lows. The teams reminisce about being forced out of their comfort zones and traversing the two most populated countries on earth. For former married couple, Yin and Gaz, it's a chance to learn who has won the race. Brothers Brian and Melvyn look back at how the race enabled them to make up for lost time, while sisters Elizabeth and Letitia tell how the adventure changed them. Teenage couple Fin and Sioned, who were catapulted into the deep end for their first backpacking experience together, share their future plans. An intimate insight with behind-the-scenes insights and unseen moments. 'I wish we were starting it all again,' says Caroline. THE BUCCANEERS, APPLE TV+ For anyone not familiar with 'The Buccaneers', they are a group of fun-loving young American girls, who exploded into the tightly corseted London of the 1870s, setting hearts racing. Now, the Buccaneers are no longer the invaders - England is their home. In fact, they're practically running the place. Nan (Kristine Froseth) is the Duchess of Tintagel, the most influential woman in the country. Conchita (Alisha Boe) is Lady Brightlingsea, heroine to a wave of young American heiresses. And Jinny (Imogen Waterhouse) is on every front page, wanted for the kidnapping of her unborn child. All of the girls have been forced to grow up and now have to fight to be heard, as they wrestle with romance, lust, jealousy, births and deaths. Last time we got a taste of England. This time we're in for a veritable feast. Also starring Christina Hendricks as Nan's mum Patti, this is an addictive culture-clash historical romp. EMMERDALE, ITV1, 7.30pm Getting increasingly frustrated with his motorbike, Bear snaps and threatens Kammy. Paddy sees this from a distance and puts a stop to it. Paddy and Mandy are dumbfounded when Bear later acts as if nothing has happened. Bear becomes irritated by their questioning and heads away upstairs, leaving Paddy and Mandy to fear that things are getting worse. Vinny continues to give Kammy the cold shoulder. Vanessa tries to get through to Tracy, but Tracy's not interested in her excuses. EASTENDERS, BBC1, 7.30pm Kat doesn't feel any better following her conversation with Alfie and feels that he isn't being completely honest with her. The drinks start flowing at Elaine's divorce party. As the night gets steadily messier, Elaine shocks Linda by declaring that the Prosecco is on the house all night. Later, a tipsy Elaine offers to book Priya a singles cruise, saying she can pay her back later. Linda is then horrified to see £5k leave the business account and confronts Elaine. CORONATION STREET, ITV1, 8pm Glenda and Sean hand out leaflets advertising the Rovers' Drag Night. Todd suggests to Theo they should go. When Debbie admits to Bernie that she finds it hard being in the same room as Ronnie, Bernie suggests they head to her hotel. Dee-Dee opens a letter stating that Laila is due for her vaccinations but when Michael tells her that James is in Leeds, she realises that she'll have to take Laila herself. Kevin gets ready to leave for his chemo session.
