Overview

• An episode airing Thursday at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX features delivery driver Mark Thorpe, 44, from east Norfolk, meeting his older brother for the first time.
• Thorpe grew up seeing a baby photo his mother, Diane, kept by her bed and had tattooed, later learning it showed the son she relinquished at 19.
• Long Lost Family’s intermediary accessed a change-of-name to find the brother, originally Kevin David Phillips and now called Martin, living in Gloucestershire.
• Martin knew he was adopted but did not know he had a sibling and initially thought the outreach was a prank before agreeing to participate.
• After meeting, the brothers report a rapid connection and say they now speak regularly on long late-night calls.