Alan Titchmarsh was left close to tears after interviewing actor James Murray on his ITV show, Love Your Weekend.
James Murray, 49, who is best known for his TV roles in Primeval and The Crown appeared on the show to discuss his charity work after the tragic loss of his baby daughter, leaving Alan, 75, emotional.
In 2009 he and his wife, the actress Sarah Parish, lost their daughter Ella-Jayne at just eight months old to a congenital heart defect.
Opening up about the tragic loss of their daughter, James Murray and Sarah – who married in 2007 – decided to try and channel their devastating loss into a positive.
James Murray explained how he and his wife in the aftermath of Ella-Jayne’s passing spent two months working at an orphanage in Cambodia before setting up the Murray Parish Trust, which raises funds for paediatric emergency medicine in the south of England.
Speaking on Sunday’s episode, gardening expert Alan asked: ‘You’ve done a heck of a lot of work for Southampton hospital because of Ella-Jayne.
‘You lost a child and you have raised millions, the two of you, with the Murray Parish Trust, for equipment for Southampton Hospital. And that goes on, presumably, does it?’
Nearly in tears James explained: ‘That keeps going on. That just keeps… We lost Ella-Jayne at the beginning of 2009 and we founded the charity a few years later.’