Kate wiped away tears as Susanna Reid requested an emotional Martin: “Can you feel the hug?” to which he replied: “Best not,” earlier than transferring on and diffusing the emotional second by launching into his newest cash saving offers. The finance journalist beforehand opened up about his mom’s loss of life on Radio 5 Live again in March 2018, and revealed that she was tragically killed in a automobile accident. He stated: “It was three days before my 12th birthday… When I got home I was told… there had been an accident involving a lorry but no one told me how serious it was. I remember worrying that my mum wouldn’t be there for my birthday… The next day my dad told me that she died that morning and that was the end of my childhood, that moment. I cried every day until I was 15 and then I stopped crying and became brittle.”
