This Morning hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary were left stunned by their latest guests – who were two sets of married identical twins.
The hosts welcomed the foursome onto the show as they revealed their unique set up, after meeting nearly 25 years ago at a twin convention.
Craig Saunders appeared with his wife Diane, while Mark and his wife Darlene joined them via a video call live from Texas.
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Both couples have gone on to have identical twin children as they explained their children are “technically cousins, but genetically like siblings”.
Diane and Darlene had previously attended the twin convention before meeting their partners.
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Mark explained that he initially met the pair alone during the event.
He said: “I was by myself and I saw Darlene and Diane and I thought they were nice. I said ‘wait a second I am a twin, I’m not crashing the party’, and I went to go and get Craig and bring him back.”
Alison asked Darlene whether she knew who she liked from the beginning.
She replied: “I thought they were both attractive but I was naturally attracted to Mark. I think something more about his personality the more we got to talking to them.”
While Craig said: “Diane was standing on the right and Darlene was standing on the left [at the twin convention].
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“I just wanted to talk to the one on the right, Diane. There was something about her that appealed to me more. And I don’t know what [it was].”
Dermot later joked: “So the four of you weren’t driving home together with your twins going, ‘Ok you have that one, and I’ll have that one?'”
The couples said they dated for over a year before they got engaged. They went on to have a double wedding.
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Their children have “grown up like brothers and sisters” and they even share dogs from the same litter.
The families live next door together and removed their fence so they could share one huge backyard.
Alison asked whether their children ever mistake them.
In response, Mark said: “Maybe if they came out from behind and didn’t see us but they can always tell us apart if they see us together facing forwards.”
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