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56 Up returns to our screens

Michael Apted’s groundbreaking documentary, which has interviewed a group of Britons every seven years since they were seven years old, is now half a century in the making. It's back on ITV 1 tonight.

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56 Up - the Liverpool lads

Aged 7 in the first series Neil told reporters he wanted to be an astronaut. Credit: ITV

Neil Neil appeared as a happy child at his primary school in Liverpool in the first series Seven Up! but was wandering lonely and homeless in the Highlands at 28. He surprised viewers when he was rediscovered working as a Lib Dem councillor in Hackney at the age of 42.

At 49 Neil was living in Cumbria, sitting on the local council and volunteering at the local Oxfam shop. But where is he now?

Neil features at the age of 56 in tonight's show Credit: ITV

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