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Simon Thomas has shared a drink with a man he 'helped save' by calling police after witnessing him 'threatening to end his life' on a motorway bridge, he revealed.
The former Sky Sports presenter phoned authorities last month after he saw a man 'looking very troubled' on the M1 in Milton Keynes.
He met up with the man and his partner last night and discussed how 'amazing' it was that so many 'good and caring people' rushed to help.
Mr Thomas, in a heartfelt Instagram post, also revealed that a 'group of young lads' had stayed with the man until the moment he was 'taken away from danger'.
The 50-year-old is now using his online presence to raise awareness about mental health issues just months after having detailed the traumatic experience of losing his first wife to cancer in 2017.
Simon Thomas has shared a drink with a man he 'helped save' by calling police after witnessing him 'threatening to end his life' on a motorway bridge, he revealed. He is pictured last night with the man and his partner
The former Sky Sports presenter phoned authorities last month after he saw a man 'looking very troubled' on the M1 in Milton Keynes
Mr Thomas first connected with the man last month after he had publicly tweeted about witnessing the incident on the bridge.
He told his followers how he had seen the man 'looking very troubled'. Although he 'couldn't help', Mr Thomas 'rang the police to alert them to what we’d seen'.
Ten days later he told his followers that the man had been in touch with him and that all those you called police had 'made a massive difference to this man and his family.'
Now the TV presenter has revealed that he and the man have met in person.
'This evening I went for a drink with the man from the bridge the other week and his lovely partner,' Mr Thomas wrote in an Instagram post yesterday.
'It was an amazing moment meeting a guy I had never met before; but whom three weeks ago I had fleetingly seen on a motorway bridge about to end it all.'
The broadcaster described how it was 'amazing' to learn how many people made the effort to help the man, despite living in what he says often feels like an 'increasingly selfish and uncaring country'.
He added: 'But there are so many good and caring people around.
'This man has so much to still live for and owes his life to those who didn’t just walk on by on the other side; or didn’t just leave it to someone else to make that call - he owes his life to those who were willing to do something, no matter how insignificant it felt at the time.'
The post comes after Mr Thomas in April opened up on his former wife's battle with cancer and how God 'brought love' back into his life with Derrina Jebb.
