Sort Your Life Out viewers in tears as Stacey Solomon returns for new series and helps out dad battling Early-Onset Alzheimer’s: ‘This is so sad’

BBC viewers were left in tears watching the new series of Stacey Solomon‘s Sort Your Life Out on Tuesday.

The DIY show returned to screens for its sixth season, with the TV personality, 36, heading to Scotland to help a father who had received a life-changing diagnosis.

In the episode, Stacey helped father-of-three Gerald, who was diagnosed with Early-Onset Alzheimer’s seven years ago and his wife of thirty years, Trish.

Alzheimer’s is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and the most common cause of dementia, characterised by brain cell death, cognitive decline, and memory loss.

Speaking about his diagnosis, Gerald explained: ‘At the beginning I thought I was just getting older. I was forgetting things.

‘At the age of 55 after 18 months of poking and prodding I was diagnosed with young onset Alzheimer’s disease.

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BBC viewers were left in tears watching the new series of Stacey Solomon’s Sort Your Life Out on Tuesday

‘Within weeks of the diagnosis I was retired through ill health. I also had to hand in my driving licence. That was a huge loss. All my independence gone.’

Stacey and her team helped declutter their home, making it easier for Gerry to move around and for their two grown-up children, who also live there.

Fans wrote on X after hearing Gerry’s story: ‘This is so sad. Dementia is cruel’

‘Poor Gerry, so sad for him.’

‘Crying at Sort Your Life Out. Very close to home with Dad and his recent diagnosis. What a lovely family though.’

‘What a devastating diagnosis early onset Alzheimers’;

‘Having lost both grandmothers and my mother-in-law to dementia and Alzheimer’s, I’ve seen first hand the devastation it causes. Being diagnosed with early onset must be absolutely earth shattering!’;

‘Beautiful family’, How lovely was that’ and ‘so happy this is back’.

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The DIY show returned to screens for its sixth season, with the TV personality, 36, heading to Scotland to help father-of-three Gary, who had received a life-changing diagnosis

Fans wrote on X after hearing Gerry’s story: ‘This is so sad. Dementia is cruel’ ‘Poor Gerry, so sad for him.’