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Mary Portas Reveals Her Brother Is the Biological Father of Her Son

She says he donated through a sperm bank to preserve a genetic link across her children.

Overview

  • Portas disclosed the detail in an interview on the Great Company podcast hosted by Jamie Laing.
  • Her son Horatio was born in 2012 to her then-wife, Melanie Rickey, through donor conception.
  • Portas emphasized there was no sexual relationship between her brother, Lawrence, and Rickey.
  • She said Lawrence built an ongoing relationship with Horatio, was among the first to hold him at birth, lives abroad, and keeps in regular contact.
  • Portas did not say whether Horatio knows that his uncle is also his biological father.