Alan Titchmarsh left in tears during new Christmas project away from hit ITV show

ALAN Titchmarsh was reduced to tears portion filming his marque caller Christmas task distant from Love Your Garden.

The beloved TV star has turned his attraction distant from his ITV programme for a festive book.

Alan, 75, has teamed up with composer Debbie Wiseman to recreate the communicative of Jack Frost.

While Alan has penned the novel, Cerys Matthews and her lad Red Abbot-Matthews execute 2 Christmas carols.

But for Alan the caller task often proved to beryllium highly emotional, leaving him successful floods of tears.

Appearing connected BBC Breakfast to beforehand the book, helium explained: "In that changeable determination [watching Cerys and her lad execute the carol] I was struggling to clasp it together.

"I was a spot proprietorial really.

"They were singing their carol and I was lasting astatine the backmost thinking, ‘I don’t judge I had immoderate manus successful this astatine all’."

Composer Debbie, who was sitting beside Alan connected the reddish sofa, besides spoke astir his tears.

She said: "When helium gets down the microphone and he’s reading, he's conscionable nonrecreational and helium conscionable does it and he’s conscionable truthful superb erstwhile I'm conducting the music.

"But get him successful the workplace and there’s tears everywhere."

Dad-of-two Alan continued: "If it doesn’t impact you arsenic a writer erstwhile it’s done with the euphony past however are you expected to expect it with an audience.

"And if it affects maine arsenic a genitor and a grandparent, it’ll impact each different mum, dad, granny and grandpa not lone with conscionable the carol but the full Jack Frost happening astir magic of it. And gosh, we request a spot of magic contiguous this Christmas."