George Michael paid for mum's IVF treatment after spotting her on Deal or No Deal - now she has a 'perfect' son

A mum has told how the late music legend George Michael paid for her to have IVF treatment, saying he would love her 'miracle' son. George's generosity helped bring Lynette Gillard something that she never dared believe could be possible - Seth, who's now turning five.

Six years ago, Lynette was in a desperate place. She'd endured nine gruelling rounds of IVF over 13 years, suffering heartbreak after heartbreak when each one failed.

When her savings ran out, her partner, Nathan Hart, turned to TV game show Deal or No Deal in the hope of winning enough cash to try again. In the end they walked away with £3,000 - the cost of one round at that time.

But Lynette, from Westhoughton, Bolton, told how a sudden phone call transformed their lives. For when the episode was aired six months later, George - who would have been 59 on Saturday after his tragic death on Christmas Day 2016 - was watching.

The show's producers called her the day after. "They asked me, 'Are you sitting down?'" Lynette, now 44, said, reports The Mirror. "They said 'we’ve had a phone call, there’s been an anonymous donor, they want to give you £9,000'. I thought 'oh my god, that's a lot of money!'

"And I couldn't believe that we'd touched somebody on TV who had watched our show and that they'd actually picked the phone up and said, 'I want to help that couple'. I had no idea who it was from, they wouldn't tell me. All I knew is that somebody wanted to help and that we had enough for another three goes."

Determined to find a way to say thank you, she sent a letter to the mystery donor via the show and used the money to fund expensive tests at a clinic in London to find out why the embryos weren't implanting.

Lynette was born with a rare condition called