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Spencer Matthews shares how he gets emotional when he thinks about how his parents coped with losing his brother and admits it would be 'hard for life to go on if anything happened to his children'

Spencer Matthews shares how he gets emotional when he thinks about how his parents coped losing his brother aged just 22

In a forthcoming episode of My Life at Christmas with Anita Rani on BBC One, Spencer, 36, shared how an emotional moment with his daughter Gigi prompted him to ‘well up’, as he watched fireworks with the four-year-old on his shoulders and thought about how his mum Jane and dad David coped with his brother dying. Spencer Matthews admitted he recently ‘welled up’ while watching fireworks with daughter Gigi on his shoulders as he reflected on the pain of losing a child (pictured in December) Speaking candidly to Rani on his personal battle with alcohol, Spencer revealed that when he first met his wife, he wasn’t ‘looking for love’, but simply ‘a nice warm shower and a bed somewhere.’

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