of his own youth, including his wartime home in Chard, Somerset. He was reunited with his childhood gang of evacuees at Forde Abbey, just outside the town. Later he caught up with his 96-year-old former school teacher, Audrey Guppy. Personal life Aspel has been married three times and has seven children. He married Dian Sessions in 1957; they had two children and divorced in 1961. Aspel married Anne Reed, a TV scriptwriter, in 1962 and they had twin children, divorcing in 1967. In 1977, Aspel married actress Elizabeth Power, best known for her role as Christine Hewitt in EastEnders; the couple had two sons, but Aspel left her in 1994 for a production assistant on This Is Your Life, Irene Clarke. As a supporter of the charity Cancer Research UK, Aspel was made a Freeman of the borough of Elmbridge, Surrey, in April 2008. A 2004 article in The Independent reported that Aspel had a dormant case of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Charity work Aspel is a Vice-President of The Children's Trust, a UK charity for children with brain injury. He is also a Patron and long time supporter of Princess Alice Hospice, Esher and The British Evacuees Association. Aspel is one of nine presidents of The Young People's Trust for the Environment. Other works References External links Michael Aspel biography at BFI Screenonline Interview with Liverpool Daily Post 1933 births 20th-century British Army personnel BBC Radio 2 presenters Beauty pageant hosts British radio presenters English game show hosts English male journalists English television presenters English television talk show hosts Military personnel from London King's Royal Rifle Corps soldiers Living people Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Emanuel School People from Battersea