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the weakest link Host Romesh Ranganathan opened up about the falling out he had with his brother, Dinesh, following the death of their father.

When her father passed away in 2011, it brought to light a series of financial problems in the family. At the time, Romesh had just quit his job to focus on being a comedian, which led to a huge row with his brother because he thought Romesh wasn’t making his weight.

Romesh told the Griefcast podcast: “My father’s passing caused huge problems for me and my brother. We had a situation where we found our financial situation was a house of cards and we weren’t sure what was going to happen with the house.

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“At the same time, I wasn’t making any money from comedy and it was a high-pressure situation. My brother felt I wasn’t doing enough to help,” he explained.

He then talked about the moment their fight got really intense.

“I remember having a big fight with him in the lobby of a theater. I shouted, ‘I will never forget how you treated me.’ And the discussion continues. It created a rift between us that took months to resolve,” he recalled.

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“Once in a while…it’s like a scar. If one of us notices that the other isn’t doing the brotherly thing, we’re going to fall into that dynamic very easily,” he said.

Romesh revealed that the brothers rift was healed when he wrote his autobiography and his brother listened to the audiobook.

He shared, at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in 2018: “Just today my brother texted and said, ‘I’ve just listened to the audio book and I’m so sorry. It gave me a new appreciation of your side’.

The Weakest Link airs on BBC One.