[Davina] For thousands of people across Britain, someone is missing from their lives.

[woman] Forty years has gone by.

I'm hoping somewhere he's thinking of us.

[man] An unwanted baby that was thrown away.

You think that all the way through your life, this is why you're adopted.

[woman] I'd like to try and make her understand why I had to do what I did.

[Davina] All too often, the years of searching lead nowhere.

Well, this is the series that steps in to help, offering a last chance to people desperate to find long lost family.

Have you found him!?

Oh!

Oh, Mum, that's amazing!

-He lives in Cape Town.

-No way.

So we both ended up in South Africa.

We've been looking for so many years.

Don't cry, babe.

Our searches have uncovered family secrets and taken us all over the world, finding people that no one else has been able to trace.

He wants to know who you are and he wants to know who he is.

You believe that you're Cherry's half-sister?

Yes.

What a state of affairs, isn't it?

[laughing] [Davina] And finally, answering questions that have haunted entire lives.

I've found her and I'm just so, so, so happy.

This week, two searches for missing parents.

A daughter who can't rest until she's found her mother.

It's like I need to lay a ghost to rest.

It's like I've got a little something that just won't let go.

And a son who has only days to find his father in time for the biggest day of his life.

[man] I feel like there's a part of me that's missing.

Every boy needs to be able to talk to their dad.

[dramatic music playing] [peaceful music playing] [birds singing] Our first story begins in the Essex village of Ashton and a woman who only realized she was adopted when she went to boarding school at the age of 11.

[woman] There's almost like a restless energy that just needs to be satisfied.

When I've been unhappy or upset, when I've been very happy, I've stood in the bathroom looking in the mirror, just looking into my own eyes, my own reflection, and just, "Who are you?

Where have you come from?

What created you?

Who are you?"

[Davina] Forty-one-year-old Bridget Eyles has never married and lives on her own just a few minutes away from her adoptive parents, Helen and Andrew.

[Bridget] I have talked about the adoption with my parents, and as my mother says, you know, "Yes, you know, we've brought you up and taught you right from wrong and all the rest of it, but you can't look at us and say, 'Well, I've got your nose, and I've got your eyes.'"

-[Bridget] Hello, hello.

-Hello, Bridget.

-[Helen] Are you ready for a cup of tea?

-[Bridget] I am indeed.

[Davina] Unable to have children of their own, Bridget's parents also adopted a boy called Robin.

[Bridget] My brother and I are very very different.

Robin, for starters, is very academic, and he was very sporty, I was more musical.

You know, we had completely different attributes.

But growing up, Bridget didn't fully understand that her family were not flesh and blood.

It was only when she was 11 and about to start boarding school that the reality hit home.

Gosh, this has changed.

Oh, wow!

This is the first time Bridget's been back to her school in 23 years.

A few weeks before Bridget was due to start as a junior boarder, her mother brought her here to meet her new house master, Mr. Trainer.

[Bridget clears throat] Terence Trainer's old office.

Mr. Trainer was sat behind his desk over there, um, and then I think I was round about here in a chair and my mother was round about here.

And I just remember my mother sort of gaily turning around and saying to him, "Oh, and of course you do know Bridget's adopted," and I just sort of sat there and looked at her and said, "Am I?"

But that was when the penny dropped for me.

[contemplative music playing] Very embarrassing for my mother, of course, in front of my to-be house master 'cause he must have thought, "Oh, this is wonderful.

They've not told her."

I can remember going back from school and saying, "But 'course you know."

"But I don't."

I said, "Well, why don't you?"

It didn't occur to her, I don't think.

Although we always used to say to everybody, you know, "Of course you know they're adopted."

She didn't really click.

It didn't... -[Andrew] Didn't actually mean anything to her.

-No.

So it probably took a long time to, to realize or the penny to drop.

[Bridget] It was a bit of a shock, but it did seem as though something clicked into place.

A few years later, Bridget stumbled across her adoption certificate amongst some of her father's papers.

[Bridget] And that was when I first found out what I had originally been called as a baby.

Natalie Susanna.

I kept going back to it and looking at it.

It almost triggers the, "Well, I wonder who I am, I wonder where I come from, I wonder what my parents are like," and, and... you know, off you go.

You're up and running.

I think that was the one and only time I went and spoke to my mother about it.

And I can remember sort of just saying to her, you know, "Did you ever know my real parents?"

And, um, I was told, "We are your real parents."

And that was it.

That was the end of the conversation.

It wasn't until nearly 20 years later, when Bridget was in her early thirties, that she felt able to access her adoption file and start searching for her mother.

[Bridget] There wasn't a huge amount of information, but to me it meant an awful lot because it was bringing me closer to understanding and getting a picture of my mother.

But any hopes that the file would lead directly to her mother were quickly dashed.

Although Bridget now had a name, Brenda Martin, the file also revealed that her mother had soon married but didn't record her new surname.

[Helen] That's lovely.

Thank you.

Yes.

After ten years of searching, Bridget is no closer to finding her birth mother.

Now, with the full support of her parents, she's turned to us for help.

-Go for it.

Go for it.

-[Andrew] Yes.

I just don't want to see you disappointed, that's my big worry, you know.

-I, but... -No, I appreciate that.

But I've had a long time to think about, about it all, and I think my biggest thing is, is that obviously I don't want you two to feel sidelined that I'm doing it because I wouldn't be able to do this without your support.

-Absolutely.

-It means the world to me.

-Yes, yes, indeed.

-So... -Okay.

-Yes.

Rattly cups you've got here, Mother!

[Helen] These were Grandmother's.

-Oh!

-[laughing] [Helen] Green Shield stamps.

-Really?

-That's going back.

Yes.

It's like I need to lay a ghost to rest.

It's like I've got a little something that just won't let go inside.

I just...

I want to find out.

I need to know.

When Bridget came to us for help, she was only able to give us two pieces of information: her birth mother's maiden name, Brenda Joyce Martin, and her age.

But when you're searching for someone, these are two very powerful pieces of information.

We knew from Bridget's adoption file that Brenda got married soon after giving her up.

But what we didn't have was her new married name.

So we searched the marriage records for the year Bridget was born, 1970, and eventually found a marriage between a Brenda J. Martin and a Gary Higgs in London.

Now we had her married name.

We checked the electoral rolls, but there was no trace of the Brenda J. Higgs we were looking for.

We had to assume that Brenda had remarried, and after a painstaking search, we eventually found a second marriage to an Albert Burgess in 1983.

But once again, when we looked at the electoral rolls, we found nothing to match the information that we had.

Could it be possible that Brenda married for a third time?

We went back to the records and discovered that in 1988, she had married a David Syrett.

And this time we were able to trace a Brenda Syrett.

The details matched and amazingly the trail led to Witham in Essex, which is just over 20 miles from where Bridget lives.

We contacted Brenda and she confirmed that she was Bridget's birth mother.

Brenda has worked for most of her life as a legal secretary and has three other children.

With a lot of adopted people, when they become conscious of the fact that they're adopted, every single morsel of information becomes vitally important.

And as Bridget got older, the questions have become more and more intense.

Questions that can only be answered by meeting her mother.

But... does her mother, Brenda, feel the same way?

-Hello.

-Brenda.

-Pleased to meet you.

-Nicky.

Hi.

-Hi, Nicky.

-You're very tall.

-Oh, no, hang on!

[laughing] -High heels.

I've got high heels on.

Please, come through.

-[Nicky] Thank you very much.

-Okay.

How has this been, finding all this out?

Oh, bit of a shock, actually.

Did you ever think the day would come?

I always hoped that she would come and look for me, but I decided a long time ago that I wouldn't look for her because, um, for all I knew, she may not have discovered that she'd been adopted and I didn't want to intrude on her life.

I mean, the day doesn't go by that I don't think about her.

-Doesn't it?

-No.

What happened then?

How old were you?

I was 21.

-Right.

-Yeah.

The father had walked, and I wasn't particularly close to my parents and they never knew, I didn't tell them.

So I was totally alone.

-They never knew?

-No.

When she was born, I gave her up for adoption.

I wanted her to have the best, um, and I knew I couldn't give that to her.

She deserved to have a mother and a father, but it was difficult to do at the time.

And I was absolutely heartbroken.

It was awful.

But deep down, as hard as it was, I really believed then I was doing the right thing.

And I've regretted it since many times over the years when I think about her.

But I'm so pleased that she's, you know, she's come looking for me.

You must have so many questions.

Oh, thousands.

[laughs] Is she tall?

Is she short?

Is she dark?

Is she blonde?

Can you describe her?

Uh, I-- Showing you a photo would be better, wouldn't it?

-You've got a photograph of her?

Oh, my God.

-Mm-hmm.

[gasps] Oh, my God!

Oh, my God.

She's beautiful.

Oh, sorry.

-No, no, no, no, no, no.

-Oh, God!

She's gorgeous.

Oh, goodness me, what a beautiful young woman.

She's got my eyes.

Thank you.

It's fantastic.

She's written you a letter as well if we were to find you.

Thank you.

"Dear Brenda, this is quite possibly one of the hardest things I've ever had to do.

I have wanted so much over the years to find you and I pray that maybe one day I might get the opportunity to meet the woman who gave me the most precious of gifts, my life.

With very best wishes, Bridget."

-[sighs] -So she hopes against hope that one day she can meet you.

Oh, yes, please.

I'd very much like to meet her if she wants to meet me.

Ooh, yes.

[contemplative music playing] [Davina] Before we tell Bridget the amazing news that we've found her birth mother, our second story comes from London and is the most urgent search we've ever had.

[man] Do you fancy eggs?

In one week's time, 27-year-old Bradlee Allen and Sheylene Pryce are getting married.

It's almost here, and we're just over the moon that, you know, it's finally here.

I feel like I've been waiting forever to get married.

You're gonna look beautiful on the day.

[Bradlee] It means so much more than... than just a piece of paper.

Despite all the excitement, there's one thing spoiling the occasion.

Apart from his daughter Kyla, Bradlee won't have any relations at the wedding.

He's got, like, me and Kyla and, like, my family to support him and that, and I know that he knows that he's got us to support him, but there is, I can still see that there's this part that's just really longing for a parent figure.

Bradlee is estranged from his mother, but is desperate for his father, who he's barely seen since he was a young child, to be there on the big day.

[Bradlee] Not having my Dad in my life, I've realized how much it actually has affected me and how much I have missed.

-Get both feet up here.

-Oh!

Come on, you can do it.

You're strong enough.

Put your feet up.

Every boy needs to be able to talk to their dad.

Don't matter how old you are, or how young you are, it doesn't matter.

Sometimes you need to talk to him.

Let me help you.

That's it... [Bradlee] I feel like there's a part of me that's missing.

[Davina] Bradlee has spent the last ten years searching for his father, but all he has to go on is his name, Malcolm Allen, and the one photo he has of their brief time together.

[Bradlee] Just to have him experience this big day for me, just for him to see where I've got to in my life, words couldn't express what that would mean to me.

[Davina] But with only a week until the wedding, could we find Malcolm in time and make Bradlee's dream come true?

In just a week's time, Bradlee Allen is getting married, and there's one person he wants to make proud, his missing father, Malcolm.

Bradlee was born in 1984.

His mother was an East End girl, and his dad was originally from the Caribbean.

His parents got together in the early '80s.

At a time of growing racial tension, it wasn't easy being a mixed-race couple in Britain.

[Bradlee] There was a number of racist elements, and it was one of the key drivers for driving my dad away.

Four months after Bradlee's birth, his parents' relationship broke down and Malcolm left the family home forever.

[Bradlee] My dad left my mum, and I kind of always felt that my mum resented me 'cause my mum always said that I look like my dad.

"You're just like your dad."

And that was always looked upon as a negative thing, and I always wanted it to be a positive thing.

Without his dad to turn to, Bradlee struggled to cope with the abuse he received as a mixed-race boy growing up in South East London.

People used to throw stones at our house.

They used to shout, "Bring the nigger out."

Being called nigger by the kids around me, people that I should really be playing with and having a good time at that age, it tears you up.

You don't really know what to do with yourself.

In his dad's absence, there was one positive influence in Bradlee's life.

My nan, she was, um, fantastic.

She loved me, she cared for me.

She watched over me.

Tragically, his grandmother died when Bradlee was a young teenager.

[Bradlee] When my nan passed away, when she died, it was the single most devastating moment in my life.

[sighs] It, it... destroyed me.

It was in the midst of this grief that his father, Malcolm, suddenly reappeared in his life.

[Bradlee] It was not the right time for me.

I'd lost my nan in the April, he came round in the August.

I opened the door, and I said to him, "What do you want?"

And he went, "It's your dad."

I was like, "What do you mean, 'It's your dad'?"

I went, "What have you done for me?"

I said, "I've got nothing more to say to you," and I shut the door in his face.

I look back now and I think, oh, I wish I'd never done it, but at that point in time...

I didn't understand.

That was the last time Bradlee saw his father.

In the subsequent decade, he put himself through college, gained a successful career in IT, and became a father himself.

Aaah!

Jump up!

But in that time, despite his best efforts, Bradlee has been unable to find his own father.

"Love is happy, love is kind."

I just wanna be able to, "Oh, this is what I do.

This is what drives me.

This is what excites me."

"Love is sharing."

[Bradlee] "This is my family.

This is my wife.

This is my daughter, and she's amazing."

"Love is my Dad."

"And she's a part of you.

We're all a part of you."

-Very good.

-Good girl!

Well done.

[Nicky] With Bradlee's wedding less than a week away, finding Malcolm, Bradlee's dad, was gonna be tough, especially when you consider that Bradlee has been searching for ten years without success.

What made this search especially hard was the fact that Bradlee couldn't give us Malcolm's date of birth.

But what Bradlee could tell us was Malcolm's middle name: Sylvester.

It was unusual enough to help us narrow the field and start piecing together a picture of Malcolm's life since he left home when Bradlee was a baby.

His dad had married in the late 1980s, moved to Luton in the 1990s, but after 2006 we could find no further trace of Malcolm on any record.

It was like he disappeared off the face of the Earth.

[Nicky] With Bradlee's wedding just days away, time was running out, and we were running out of options.

So we turned to the only hard evidence we had, Malcolm's last known address, hoping that someone might know of his whereabouts.

Amazingly, our long-shot paid off.

A cousin of Malcolm's was living at the address and passed the letter on to him.

Malcolm was living in North London and working as a painter and decorator.

The last time Malcolm saw Bradlee, he was told by him, "What have I got to say to you?"

and the door was slammed in his face.

And that must have been really hard for a father to take from a son.

But did Malcolm really have any idea what was going on in Bradlee's life at the time?

There he was, a 14-year-old boy, grieving for his grandmother.

Malcolm agreed to meet me in a café near to his home.

Welcome.

Hi.

Nicky.

-How are you?

-Yeah, fine.

It's really good to see you.

Can I...?

-Yeah, certainly, sit.

-Thanks.

[sighs] How did you react when you found out that Bradlee was looking for you?

Oh... couldn't believe it really.

Do you think about him a lot?

Oh... all the time.

I think about him all the time, yeah.

He speaks about a moment of huge regret in his life and sadness in his life when he was 14, which is the last time he remembers seeing you, and he said, "What have I got to say to you?"

And he slammed the door in your face.

What happened that day from your angle?

Well, I was disappointed, yeah.

But I, uh... was quite understanding still, even though I was disappointed.

Yeah, 'cause I could understand how he feels, yeah.

So, yeah, I just thought he needed some space to do whatever and he wants to do it with himself and...

I gave him that space, I thought.

And then I tried to get back in touch when I thought there was enough space.

-So you did try over the years?

-Yeah.

I tried, asking his mother for contact details, and I really didn't get any joy there, and I couldn't get any answers.

The relationship was difficult between you and his mother.

What kind of pressures were there on the two of you back then?

I wasn't the right hue.

-Color?

-Yeah.

She was having a lot of abuse for her relationship with a black person, you know, so...

When the pressure became too much, I just walked away from it, you know, and of course I couldn't handle it anymore.

Do you wanna see a picture?

[laughing] Of course.

Yeah.

Oh.

Yeah.

[laughing] Yeah.

This is his wife?

-Partner.

-Partner.

And his daughter?

[Nicky] Your granddaughter, Kyla.

He looks fantastic, man, he looks great.

So is this my photograph?

-Do you think I'm gonna take it away from you?

-[laughing] Do you think I'm gonna put it in front of you and then take it away from you and walk out that door?

-That's your photograph.

-[Malcolm sighs] And that's your letter, from your son.

"Dear Dad, it was not easy growing up without a father.

But I know it must have been hard on your side also.

I feel that as a person who created me, you will always be part of me.

I think if you meet me, I would really surprise you and that the boy you last met is a man with a successful career and a loving family.

All this I would love for you to be part of.

From your son, Bradlee."

Yeah.

Yeah.

I've got to tell you something.

This Friday... [Malcolm] Mm-hmm.

...they're getting married.

For Bradlee, that day will be complete if you share it with them.

Yeah.

Are you free?

Have to be.

I have to be.

[contemplative music playing] I'm on my way to tell Bradlee that we've found his dad, but not only that, this news means that his dream of having his dad at his wedding might actually come true.

-Hi, Bradlee.

-Nice to meet you.

And you.

How you doing?

Oh, thank you.

I know that there's been a sort of sense of urgency, hasn't there, to find your dad because quite an important day's coming up?

That's right.

So me and Sheylene are getting married, um, very soon, it's a few days away now.

Don't actually have any family or any blood relatives attending my wedding.

And it's hard.

It's a very hard thing to, to deal with as a person.

Well, obviously we really wanted to respond to your sense of urgency and try and find your dad for your big day.

And it's been a very short amount of time that we've had to try and find him.

But we've found him.

Oh, my gosh!

Wow!

And does he wanna see me?

-He does.

-Oh, my goodness!

Oh, wow!

Well, um, I don't even know what to say now.

-Oh, my gosh!

-He's been looking for you.

He has?

Do you want to see a picture?

I wanna see a picture, of course.

[sighs] It means everything to me.

I don't... Oh, I don't even know how to put it into words.

[laughs] I just wanna meet him and just talk to him and sit down and just go through this with him and just... then I've got the opportunity now to share everything.

Does he know I'm getting married?

Is he-- Can he-- I'm assuming that means he can come?

This is-- this is-- this is... Oh... [laughing] Oh, my goodness!

This is wonderful.

I can't believe this.

We need to tell Sheylene.

[laughing] -Is she upstairs?

-Yes, she's upstairs.

[indistinct chatter] So, Bradlee, he's got something to tell you.

[sighs] They've found my dad.

Oh, my gosh.

[Bradlee] And, um... Is that his picture?

[Bradlee] That's him.

That's what he looks like.

-Oh, my gosh.

-Can you believe it?

We've been looking for so many years.

Don't cry, babe.

-I'm so happy for you.

-Thank you.

-You all right?

-Yeah, I'm good.

Yeah, give Mummy a kissy.

Oh!

[Sheylene] Kyla, that's your granddad.

[Davina] Forty-one-year-old Bridget Eyles only realized she was adopted when she was 11 and has spent a lifetime searching for a sense of identity.

After an extensive search, we eventually tracked down Bridget's birth mother, Brenda.

Oh, my God!

She's got my eyes!

I'm now on my way to tell Bridget the news, that we've found her mother, amazingly living just 26 miles away from her.

Ever since the penny dropped, Bridget's had moments where she's looked in the mirror and just asked, "Who am I?"

And as an adult, she's dared to hope that perhaps her birth mother might hold the answers to that question.

And I'm hoping that maybe she can give Bridget that sense of identity that she's been missing for so long.

[doorbell rings] -Hi, Bridget, how are you?

-Hello.

Nice to meet you.

-And you.

-Come on in.

Thank you.

What scenarios have you thought through?

I've thought about finding, um, my mother but her having moved on and saying, "Do you know what, thank you but no thank you, I don't want to see you."

Um...

So, you know, then there's kind of dealing with that rejection, I suppose.

All sorts of things have gone through my head, you know, but I just need to know where I've come from really.

I need to know who I am.

Obviously, you know, you looked for a long time and our team have been working on your behalf trying to find your mum.

And we have found her.

Oh, my goodness me.

I can't believe this!

Oh, wow!

Ooh!

She's well, and she's so pleased and thrilled.

That's really good.

She has given me a photo.

-Would you like to see a photo?

-Yes, please.

Oh, my gosh!

Oh, my gosh!

I've got her cheeks, I've got her eyes.

It's like a carbon copy, except a bit older.

[Bridget] My God, they are totally my eyes.

And yes, these lovely things when we smile.

Oh, my gosh!

That's incredible.

So was she... she was all right then about me?

-Oh, God, she was so pleased.

-Was she?

[Davina] And, um, when she looked at your photo, she did exactly the same as you've just done.

-Really?

[laughing] -Yes.

I look in the mirror, and I look at my own eyes, and it's like, "Who are you?"

And now I can see.

-I'm that.

-You so are.

[laughing] The best bit is, she lives 26 miles away.

You are joking!

Twenty-six miles away.

She lives in Essex.

[laughing] Oh, goodness me!

Ah...

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

[Davina] That was so lovely, and Bridget finally has a photographic answer to that question, "Who am I?"

And now what I'm hoping is that tomorrow the chemistry's there as well.

It's the day of the reunion.

Bridget and her birth mother, Brenda, are preparing to meet each other again for the first time in 41 years.

[knock on door] -Hey.

-Hello.

How are you?

-You all right?

-I am, yes.

It's all happened so quickly, hasn't it?

For you.

It's moved at lightning speed.

This morning when I got up, I must admit I was quite teary.

All the years of build-up, and I guess it's just a release.

It's just we're finally at this point, this... this enormous and hugely important point for me.

[contemplative music playing] -Hi!

How are you?

-How are you?

-I'm fine.

-Are you okay?

-Yes, I'm fine.

-What a lovely bunch of flowers you've got for her.

I found out that pink roses are June's birthday flowers.

She was born in June, of course.

[Davina] Bridget wants to meet her mother in the grounds of Audley End House, a local landmark and somewhere she's enjoyed visiting for years.

I never dreamed that she would come looking for me.

I'm so pleased she has.

I sort of pinched myself this morning.

I was very nervous this morning, I thought, "Crumbs, this is the day, you know, this is it."

Can't believe I'm here.

Just can't wait to see her.

[Davina] So we're nearly there now.

I know.

I'm really quite nervous.

In fact, I'm really very nervous.

-[Davina] This is it.

-This is it.

And Brenda is just down that path.

So I'm gonna say goodbye.

-Okay.

-Good luck.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Oh... [inhales sharply] [exhales] Don't lose it.

Don't lose it.

Look at you!

[laughing] -You're my... -Look at you.

[laughing] -Oh, God!

-Look at you.

-You look fantastic.

-[laughing] -Come.

-Ahhh... My heart is going like a steam train.

-You're absolutely beautiful.

-Thank you.

Chip off the old block, honey.

It's like looking at myself 20, 30 years ago.

I had to let you go.

I had the pen in my hand, and I knew that once I signed... That was it.

Sorry, I'm filling up.

Once I...

I'm sorry.

It's okay.

It's okay.

I came back again, I went forward again, and came back again, and I signed.

And I was in bits, absolutely in bits.

I can't even begin to imagine having to make that choice.

-Sorry.

-You know, it's gone full circle and it's okay.

Always hoped that you'd come looking but... don't start me off.

-I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

-Don't apologize.

It's fantastic.

-Lot of tears, lot of tears.

-No, no, no, no.

No, it's fantastic, don't apologize, it's great.

I'm so sorry you've had to wait so long.

No, please, don't.

Don't apologize.

There is absolutely no reason for you to apologize at all.

-Now I have my blueprint.

-Yes.

-And I know where I've come from.

-I hope you're pleased.

-I'm very pleased.

-Good.

I'm very very pleased.

-Thank you.

-Come here.

[peaceful music playing] [Brenda] She's turned out to be a wonderful young woman, and I'm in a debt of gratitude to her parents, they did a fantastic job with her.

She's just lovely.

[Bridget] I think my cheeks are actually starting to hurt now because I just can't stop smiling.

[laughs] Um, yes, it has... it's been a very very positive experience, and I'm so glad that I went down this road, I really am.

You've got some serious artistic flair today, Kyla, look at you.

[Davina] Bradlee Allen has spent the last ten years searching for the father he's never really known.

[Bradlee] He's gonna love this picture, isn't he?

-[Sheylene] It's lovely.

-[Bradlee] Wow.

Today, they will meet for the first time since Bradlee turned his back on him as a 14-year-old.

[Bradlee] See you later.

Bye.

With his wedding to fiancée Sheylene just days away, Bradlee wants his dad by his side.

[Sheylene] Are you gonna miss him?

He'll be back soon.

Bradlee's arranged to meet his father in a park in North London, close to where Malcolm lives.

Basically got an invitation to the wedding for him, so I'm really excited.

Hopefully he's gonna... he's gonna be able to accept and he's gonna see the invitation and he's gonna see how much, um, we really want him there and how much we want him to just, you know, feel embraced by our family.

[barber] Malcolm, have a nice day.

-Yeah, man, appreciate it.

-Wish you well today.

[Davina] Malcolm is being met by Nicky who will take him to the meeting place.

Malcolm's brought along photos of his own father to show Bradlee the family resemblance.

That's my father when he was a young man.

[Nicky] Right.

Glasses on.

-Ooh, wow.

-[Malcolm chuckles] -[Nicky] That is incredible.

-Isn't it?

[laughs] [Nicky] But that's the story of all of this, isn't it?

-Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

-Just... wait till Bradlee sees it.

Bradlee sees it.

[laughing] Yeah.

Jesus.

[chuckles] Oh, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

Go and see your son.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

[contemplative music playing] [chuckles] Come here, man.

-How are you?

-I'm good.

You good?

I'm so happy to see you.

I can't believe it, man.

-I can't believe it.

-Don't watch that.

It don't matter, we're here now.

-Sit down?

-Yes, yeah, for a minute.

Come.

[Malcolm sighing] I can't believe... -Yeah.

-I can't believe, um...

Boy, oh, boy.

I didn't think...

I didn't think we could... could find you.

The last time we saw, I was a bit ignorant 'cause I was young, young and dumb.

I know, I understood all that about, you know, that didn't really matter.

-I just thought you needed space to... -Yeah.

But the fact that you cared enough, thought of me enough to be looking for me.

I can't even express how I feel, man.

God, you look brilliant, man.

-You look brilliant.

-[laughing] Yeah, you, you look good yourself.

[laughing] Thank you very much.

I know where I get it from, right?

They gave me a photograph of you.

I went home and I had a photograph of my dad when he was a youngster, man.

He's us, man.

He's us.

I've got it in my pocket here, I'll show it to you.

Let me see it.

I couldn't even put it in an envelope because my pocket won't hold the envelope, so... Look, look, look, there's... that's my dad when he was young, right?

-Can't you see him there?

-I can see it, I can see it.

Huh?

Yeah, man.

What a gorgeous baby, man.

-Yeah.

-My granddaughter, man.

-She drew you a picture.

-Did she?

-She drew you a picture.

-Ah, that's brilliant.

She drew you this picture, and it's of you and her.

[Malcolm] Ah, that's nice, man.

It's brilliant.

That's really brilliant.

-I'm assuming you've been told what's happening on Friday?

-Yeah.

-I'm getting married.

-Isn't that great?

I'm making the biggest step of my life, so... -Yeah.

-I have an invitation for you to come to my wedding.

-[Malcolm] Ah, brilliant.

-I want you on my top table.

-Yeah.

-I want you to be part of this.

This is... You have a family that I am part of and that you are now part of and I want you to be able to embrace that.

-You can make it, yeah?

Yeah?

-Man, what are you talking about?

Of course.

[laughs] There's no question about that.

This means the world to me, you know, I'm telling you now.

[Malcolm] Feel great just looking at him and seeing what a lovely young man he's grown into and... a beautiful person, you know, and makes me really feel proud to be his dad.

[Bradlee] This is it.

Now this is the start of a whole new world for me.

I mean, he's obviously had a big part of his life missing for the longest time, and I've always had that part missing from my life, and now we both have it, so we can fill that gap and... it's just an amazing thing.

Look what you are, gee whiz, that's so great.

-So great.

-I can't believe this.

[Davina] Just 48 hours later, it's Bradlee and Sheylene's wedding, and Malcolm is there to make the day complete.

"Love is caring, love is my mum.

Love is strong, love is my dad.

Today at your wedding, love's made my family complete."

[applause] [Bradlee] I don't think it really felt real to me until he was there.

This is more than I could have ever asked for.

[Davina] Next time on "Long Lost Family"... two stories of women who've spent a lifetime searching for the truth.

A daughter who has lived in hope that she was given away by her mother for the right reasons.

She had to make that decision to give me the best life that she could, and I understand that.

And the search for a sister who was kept secret for over 30 years.

Everything was brushed under the carpet.

I felt a conspiracy 'cause nobody would speak about it.

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