The second episode in this season of Celebrity Race Across the World has now aired, and fans found themselves moved after witnessing some emotional moments between father and son Jeff and Freddy Brazier . Part way through the episode, Jeff spoke about how he had been impacted by the death of Freddy's mum, Jade Goody, who passed away in 2009 at the age of 27. Speaking about his hopes for Freddy, Jeff said: "Independence for Fred is the name of the game, really.
I think when the boys lost their mum, I really doubled down on putting all of my time, effort, attention, focus on my children. "I needed to be there, helping them to navigate whatever the future was going to look like for them given their loss. And I'm still playing that role.
But, yeah, the more Fred does for himself, I know that he can start to push on in life." In a later scene, Jeff admitted: "It's hard to switch off and I'm being too serious. Just everything is responsibility, that's what it's been for a long time.
"Because I think, as a man, you probably don't rate your chances of coping, so you do what comes naturally to you, which is just, right, take all the responsibility and just focus on the situation. "I have absolutely 100 per cent lost the ability to play, but I think that it's something that I need to regain. I need Freddy to show me, really, and I need to get back to what I used to be.
I'm sure that's possible." Fans were quick to post their reactions to these emotional scenes, and their well-wishes fo.