SCOTTISH singer KT Tunstall says she had reservations about appearing on TV to search for her biological father as she feared producers were after “a salacious, crazy, Jeremy Kyle-style nightmare scenario”.
The singer, who grew up in St Andrews, has always known she was adopted and had tracked down her birth mother in 1998.
But when approached by ITV’s Long Lost Family series to help her find her biological father John, she said: “I was totally not aware, really, of many programmes that are ... these kinds of real-life programmes.
“And obviously the worry is, what’s the agenda here? Are they wanting some sort of salacious, crazy, Jeremy Kyle-style nightmare scenario that is going to get everyone watching?
“But it became absolutely
apparent very quickly that they just want to find family members, put them together in the safest and most positive possible way.”
Tunstall learned her father had died in 2002 but discovered she has two half-sisters. The programme will be screened on Monday.
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