Mothers' Day will have special significance this year for Deanne Maiden, who has been reunited with her mum - after 32 years.

Adopted Deanne, of Ferncliffe Road, Bingley, had not seen her New Zealander mother Glyneath Sullivan since she was two.

Now the pair have been brought together in London in an emotional reunion on Cilla Black's Surprise Surprise show.

And Glyneath had a second treat in store - Deanne's half-sister Alanie, 15.

Deanne's mum was unmarried and found she could not cope with a baby so put her up for adoption

Married Deanne, 34, herself a mother of two, said: "When they came on stage I didn't know what to say. I was happy and I was in shock.

"They have come back up with me now and she's brilliant. She's just like me - she says what she thinks.

"I had a picture in my mind of what she'd be like. She was nothing like it! She was so small. I am 5ft 5in and she comes up to my shoulders. My dad in New Zealand is really tall so it seems so funny for her to be small."

Deanne moved to West Yorkshire with her adopted parents when she was six and Glyneath had no idea her daughter had left for England. She put a notice in her local paper on Deanne's 21st birthday but lost hope of seeing her again when there was no response.

Two years ago, on the death of her adoptive mother, Deanne decided to try and trace her real mum. She wrote to the New Zealand High Commission, and the New Zealand Adoption Society and finally got an address.

Deanne said: "I wrote a simple letter saying: 'I believe you are my mother. I understand if you have a new family and I don't want to come in between but the ball is in your court and you can ring or write. I sent it on a Tuesday and the following Wednesday she rang up.

Glyneath said: "When I first heard I was so excited. When I opened the letter I screamed. I cried. I laughed. I even lifted my neighbour up and spun her round the kitchen - heaven knows how!"

The pair were then faced with the expense of the flights involved and thought they may never meet.

Then her mother-in-law wrote to Cilla Black and Deanne was later told she had won an all expenses trip to London, a stay in a hotel and a show.

"We turned up in this stretch Merc and we were told the show was Cilla Black's. I said: 'Well I suppose it's better than Jeremy Beadle.' We watched it all being filmed. I didn't have an inkling at all."

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