ITV This Morning viewers ‘appalled’ as Netflix’s Our Father kids share fears they may date a sibling

This Morning fans were left ‘appalled’ on Wednesday as co-hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield interviewed two children of the infamous fertility doctor Donald Cline. The latest true crime offering from Netflix, Our Father, gives viewers an insight into the gruesome story of a once-respected fertility doctor who is believed to have artificially inseminated over 50 women with his own sperm during the 1970s and 80s.

At the time the Netflix show was released, there are 94 children who have been fathered by Cline. Holly and Phillip interviewed the siblings Jason Hyatt and Jacoba Ballard remotely in the US on Wednesday as they detailed their mental health struggles after the discovery.

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Holly said: “There’s so much going on for you. But I guess there are other things to consider here as well. Once you realise there are lots and lots of siblings all in a 25-mile radius, then I guess there’s the risk as well of inadvertently meeting a sibling, having a relationship with a sibling. Even now, 94 and counting, that list isn’t over. This still could possibly happen. Is that a very real thought?”

Jacoba Ballard, who was part of the original group that figured out what Cline had done, said it “absolutely” was. She added: “Not for siblings only, but for kids. Kids that are older that meet an aunt or an uncle, not just a cousin.

“We’ve never been told when he started or when he stopped. We know he retired in 2009, so we could have siblings [born] as young as 2009, 2010.”

This Morning fans were horrified by the chilling scheme, which wasn't actually illegal in Indiana at the time but, as a result of the campaign by Jacoba and