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Alan Titchmarsh has declared that “it’s pathetic” as he issued a heartbreaking update\n(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Much-loved gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh, who has two grown-up daughters with his wife Alison, revealed that one thing has endured from their childhood in a touching revelationAlan Titchmarsh has declared that “it’s pathetic” as he issued a heartbreaking update
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Alan Titchmarsh has declared that “it’s pathetic” as he issued a heartbreaking update about the separation he endures from his two grown up daughters. In a heartfelt revelation earlier this year, the beloved gardening expert revealed a family insight involving a line from a classic children’s film, one that reportedly elicits an emotional response<\/a> in him.<\/p>\n Alan<\/a>, who has two adult daughters, Polly and Camilla, with his wife Alison, detailed how the “Daddy, my daddy” line from The Railway Children strikes a particular chord with him.<\/p>\n His words suggested that the film conjures up images of his children, and in a touching admission<\/a>, he confessed that he even has to “leave the room” if they put the iconic film <\/a>on.<\/p>\n The Ground Force legend harshly dubbed his own reaction to the film “pathetic” before explaining his current family setup. However, one thing has apparently endured from his daughters’ childhood.<\/p>\n Alan told the Times<\/a>: “It’s pathetic, really. I’m a grown man and I have to leave the room if my girls put The Railway Children on.<\/p>\n “They’ve got their own houses now, their own husbands, their own children \u2014 the oldest is 13 and the youngest is 9. But their rooms are still here and they’ve still got their names on the door.”<\/p>\n In related news, Alan previously disclosed the “heartbreaking” question that he received from his daughter<\/a> when he kissed her goodnight.<\/p>\n It came as he spoke on James O’Brien’s Full Disclosure podcast <\/a>in 2023, on which he explained that he used to have to spend time away from home due to work<\/a>.<\/p>\n He said: “I would go away on a Sunday evening and come back later in the weekend. I do remember the heartbreaking thing of kissing one of them goodnight and them saying ‘will you be here in the morning?'”<\/p>\n Alan, whose long career in broadcasting has included shows such as Gardeners’ World and Songs of Praise, has been married to his wife for 50 years, having first met her when they were in their 20s at an amateur dramatics group.<\/p>\n Speaking previously about his relationship<\/a>, Alan claimed that romance is a matter of being “thoughtful”, revealing that he’d made Alison tea for a staggering 45 years.<\/p>\n However, he conceded that, in turn, his wife has ironed his shirts “every week for 44 years”, something he described as the “greater gift”. He added that he’s “lucky” due to her being the “most unmaterialistic” person he knows.<\/p>\n According to Hello!, the presenter has dubbed the retired doctor his “best friend”, and they now spend their time either in their Hampshire farmhouse <\/a>or holiday home on the Isle of Wight<\/a>.<\/p>\n Polly is the couple’s oldest daughter, born in 1980, while Camilla was born in 1982. Grandfather Alan revealed to The Mirror in 2020 that they lived locally but couldn’t see them for months due to lockdown measures at the time.<\/p>\n You can next catch Alan on Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh on ITV on Sunday, August 17, from 9.30am to 11.30am.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much-loved gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh, who has two grown-up daughters with his wife Alison, revealed that one thing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[3412,18,117,5184,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-4873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gardening","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Alan](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Investitures-At-Windsor-Castle.jpg\")
Alan has two grown-up daughters, Polly and Camilla, with his wife, Alison
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Alan confessed that he even has to “leave the room” (Image: UK Press via Getty Images)<\/p>\n