Steve Backshalls Twin Saved by Siblings Touch

TV wildlife presenter Steve Backshall has revealed the 'special connection' his six-year-old twins have shared since birth. 

Steve, 52, and his Olympic rower wife , 39, were heartbroken in 2018 when one of the twins they were expecting died in the womb. Their son, Logan, survived. 

Helen, who has a twin brother, and Steve went on to have twins, a boy, Kit, and a girl, Willow, in 2020, but the TV star has now revealed that they feared for their daughter's life when she was born. 

'Our little girl arrived in the world not breathing, and it took a good while before she was,' the naturalist explained on 's Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast. 

'She was lying there, blue, everybody is going crazy, as they do in these moments, and there's doctors racing everywhere.'

He then recalled the incredible moment that Willow's twin brother saved her, explaining: 'They took her twin brother and placed her alongside him and she started breathing.' 

'There is something so special in that connection in twins. In that one moment it started in perfect synchronicity between the two of them.'

Speaking to The Mail On Sunday last year the TV adventurer admitted that having three young children while in his 50s, has been the most physically draining stage of his life.  

'I do wish I had the energy I had when I was in my 20s and 30s, to have the ability to sprint around playing football and rugby all day long with my kids, and for me to still be popping and buzzing with energy,' he confessed. 

'But obviously I haven't and it's tough to keep going when you're 52 and you've got three kids under six. 

'But I've got knowledge and experience and a whole array of things I can teach them about, help them with. 

'Also I've got no choice! These are the cards that I was dealt, and I've got to make it work.'

Steve describes his wife Helen as a 'mega-mum' and is proud that she was

'I think they are very excited by it and very proud – but also, the fact I go away a lot, they don't like at all. 

'They really struggle with it. It's been hard ever since they could understand what I was doing.

'They would take me doing an office job and seeing me every day over me having this incredibly exciting job but always being away for long periods of time. Especially at the age they're at. 

'Right now for this one little precious period of time in their lives all they want is to be with Mummy and Daddy.'