WITH his piercing blue eyes and rugged good looks, silver fox Roger Hawes has already seduced the nation on My Mum, Your Dad – ITV’s new dating show for single parents of a certain age.
But the plucky postie has had a harder time finding love again on the programme because he is still getting over losing his wife Joanne to cancer 18 months ago.
Dad of three Roger, 59, was warned by some of his family not to put himself through the ordeal in front of millions of viewers.
So he is grateful to his 28-year-old daughter Jess, because although we have yet to see him form a bond with any woman on the show, simply taking part in it with her has given him new hope.
In his first newspaper interview, Roger told The Sun: “When Jess told me she had put me through, my mum and sister were worried I wasn’t ready.