In an edition of Who Do You Think You Are? aired on 19 August 2009, Freeman discovered that his grandfather, Leonard Freeman, was a medic who was killed a couple of days before the Dunkirk evacuation in May 1940 World War II.
A Who Do You Think You Are? 2009. augusztus 19-i részében kiderült, hogy nagyapja, Leonard Freeman önkéntes katonaorvos volt a második világháborúban.