Dylan Llewellyn’s mother Jackie Llewellyn emotionally shared details of her first husband’s death during the latest episode of Celebrity Race Across The World .

The Derry Girls actor had previously opened up on the show about the loss of his brother James to suicide at the age of 20.

In Thursday night’s episode of the BBC One competition show, Jackie shared the heartbreak she experienced just days before James was born, when her husband was hit by a car.

The emotional moment came after Dylan and Jackie had set off in the lead for this latter stage leg of the celebrity rally.

The mother-son duo were en route to Colombia for their fifth or sixth checkpoints on the show, with the final looming. They decided to stop for a dip in a Panama waterfall.

Swimming in the water, Jackie

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