Sam Quek turned up on a special edition of The Chase for Soccer Aid on Friday, May 29, 2026, as ITV began winding the clock toward its Soccer Aid weekend. She joined David James, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Maisie Adam on the teatime quiz show, with the celebrities trying to win money for Unicef.

The appearance landed at exactly the moment viewers were being nudged toward the main event. Soccer Aid 2026 was set for Sunday, May 31, 2026, at the London Stadium, with kick-off scheduled for 6.30pm British Summer Time. Quek, who is Liverpool-born, took part in Soccer Aid last year as well, making her one of the more familiar faces in ITV’s charity line-up.

For Quek, though, the TV slot sits alongside a more personal story that has followed her into the spotlight. She has spoken before about suffering a miscarriage, including a baby loss in January 2020 at 10 weeks, and said the experience led her to keep news of her later pregnancy under wraps for as long as possible. She described it as a strange one, and said the loss took a toll on both her and her husband, Tom Mairs, because they were not able to speak about it properly.

That history shaped how she approached the pregnancy that followed. Quek said she stopped getting too excited because the thought of what if? stayed in the back of her mind. Later, while pregnant with her second child, son Isaac, she faced another scare when, a week before her due date, she was rushed in for an emergency C-section after waking in the night with strong contractions and bleeding.

She said she had been having recurring nightmares that the birth would end in a C-section and she would haemorrhage. In the end, Isaac was safely born, and Quek said the moment his little face appeared over the curtain was the instant she knew he had finally arrived, was safe and was joining their family of three to make it four. The TV appearance may be a light, upbeat stop on the Soccer Aid trail, but the personal backdrop gives it a different weight: this is a public face returning to a charity stage while carrying the memory of what it took to get her family to this point.