TV’s Heartbeat star takes ‘egg mummy’ into family

Former Heartbeat star Jason Durr has told of his unusual family set-up after welcoming the egg donor for his two-year-old twins to have a part in their life.

The actor and his wife, Kate, enlisted the aid of a donor, called “Brooke”, to help them have more children when other methods failed.

Durr, who starred as PC Mike Bradley in the rural drama, had wanted a sibling for daughter Blossom, now seven, but efforts to conceive naturally failed, as did cycles of IVF.

They then turned to their “egg mummy” after enrolling with an agency in the United States, which is how they found Brooke, a 28-year-old psychology graduate from California. Now the Durrs and Brooke have decided to keep in touch to allow Brooke, who says she was motivated by the desire to help rather than financial gain, to have regular contact with the youngsters, who are now two.