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MasterChef judge reveals how reuniting with his mum 45 years after being abandoned turned into a horrible nightmare - 'I was alone, in debt and suicidal'
Frankly, it's the kind of thing an unhappy little boy who never knew his mother might lie awake fantasising about. One day Mummy will turn up and want to make amends for all those years of hurt.
Graham Hornigold, a renowned pastry chef, ex-Michelin star holder, and a former judge on MasterChef, seems a very grounded man, not one prone to lavish leaps in life. He says he had never had a ‘decent car’ before so nearly fainted when the biological mother, who had just come back into his life after 45 years, took him to a Rolls-Royce showroom in London’s Park Lane and said she wanted to treat him. It took Heather turning detective – unearthing marriage certificates where the three-times married Dionne had named different men as her father, and given different dates of birth – to make him listen to her pleas that this woman was not who she purported to be.
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