Overview

• Noel enlisted an adoption specialist and spent a couple of hours meeting his birth mother for the first time since his adoption as a 10-day-old infant.
• He described the reunion as emotional and said he was “glad” to have met her but has no plans for a continued relationship.
• Sue Radford has firmly declined to seek out her birth mother, stating that her adoptive parents are her only family and she never wants to reconnect with her biological mother.
• Sue says the 2014 stillbirth of their son Alfie deepened her resolve against pursuing a birth parent reunion.
• The new season of 22 Kids and Counting, premiering on Channel 5 on July 20, will follow these adoption storylines alongside life in the Radfords’ 10-bedroom Morecambe home with 22 children and 14 grandchildren.