Stephen Mulhern cried in his first TV show following the death of his dad Christopher.
Stephen Mulhern cries for the first time on TV in The Accidental Tourist
Viewers will see a more emotional side to the 48-year-old presenter in the upcoming ITV1 and ITVX travelogue one-off show, ‘The Accidental Tourist’, which was filmed just after Christopher passed away last year.
The special, which will air at some point in 2025, sees Stephen’s ‘Saturday Night Takeaway’ friends, Ant McPartlin, 49, and Declan Donnelly, 49, whisk him away to South Korea to discover the country and push himself out of his comfort zone to eat food he does not like with strangers.
Stephen told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “No one’s ever seen me cry on the telly.
“But it was quite nice to not be behind a format, I’ve never done that. You’re going to see behind the razzle-dazzle if you like. People have thankfully seen me on TV for nearly 25 years, but they may go, ‘Well, what’s he like at home? Is he going out with someone?’
“I’m at the very centre of this, and it’s scary.
“They film and they film and they film and they just get everything. I think what you’re going to see is a lot of emotion. You’ll see me totally out of my comfort zone.”
The ‘Catchphrase’ host loved has pride in himself for starring in ‘The Accidental Tourist’ – which reportedly took Stephen three years to be persuaded to do – but he is “gutted” that his father was not alive to see how he got on in the Asian country.
An emotional Stephen admitted: “My dad had just passed away, so…
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