Where are the 14 children from 7 Up now?

7 Up introduced viewers to 14 children from vastly different backgrounds in 1964.

What began as a one-off World in Action film examining Britain’s class system became one of TV’s most remarkable long-term experiments, with cameras returning every seven years.

More than six decades later, the story is coming to an end with 70 Up: The Final Chapter.

Eleven of the surviving participants have reunited on camera, while Charles Furneaux features via archive material and voiceover.

The programme also features Nick Hitchon’s final interview, filmed just three days before his death in 2023, and remembers Lynn Johnson, who passed away in 2013.

What was 7 Up?

The original programme was inspired by the Jesuit saying: “Give me the child until he is seven and I will show you the man.”

Where are the 14 children from 7 Up now?

Jackie Bassett has left Scotland for a new life in Norfolk and has a new partner.

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The mum-of-three and grandmother says she has finally found a sense of “peace”.

Lynn Johnson worked as a school librarian throughout her career. She died after a short illness in 2013.

Sue Davis spent decades working as a university administrator and has now married her long-term partner Glenn after what she jokingly called an extremely long engagement.

Tony Walker’s childhood dream of becoming a jockey didn’t work out. He instead became a London cabbie and occasional actor.

Bruce Balden was a teacher but is now retired in Berwick-upon-Tweed, where he sings in his church choir and volunteers with the RNLI.

Peter Davies also became a teacher, and later a lawyer, but is now a writer and musician.

His latest work includes a novel titled Valediction Records, as well as a musical called Under the Mersey Moon.

Neil Hughes endured depression and periods of homelessness, later becoming a Liberal Democrat councillor and lay preacher.

Paul Kligerman emigrated to Australia, where he still lives after settling down and raising a family. He is now a grandfather.

Symon Basterfield went on to have a large family and, with his wife, became a foster parent to more than 120 children.

Andrew Brackfield became a solicitor and is the only one of the three privately educated boys from the original film to have appeared in every instalment.

John Brisby became a successful barrister and still practices as a King’s Counsel.

Charles Furneaux became a television producer but quit the project after 21 Up.

The now-retired producer makes a limited return in 70 Up through photographs and voiceover.

Suzy Lusk, now Suzanne Dewey, became a bereavement counsellor and has three children. She returns for 70 Up after sitting out 63 Up.

Nick Hitchon became a professor and nuclear fusion scientist in the US.

On July 23, 2023, he sadly passed from throat cancer aged 65, three days after filming his final 70 Up interview.

When is 70 Up on TV?

On Tuesday, September 15, 70 Up: The Final Chapter begins at 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX.