A dad surprised his daughter after he returned home from deployment by dressing up in Beauty and the Beast costume to dance with her - before pulling off the mask and revealing his face. Brandon Richards, who was serving abroad for six-and-a-half months, returned home from deployment without his kids Morgan, aged six, and Jax, three, knowing he was back. Before he was due home, Brandon’s wife Elizabeth started coming up with ways he could surprise their children and found the costumes online and started planning the day. In the first surprise, Morgan enters the room wearing Belle’s famous ballgown, and sees ‘Beast’ at the end of the room inviting her to dance. As she excitedly turns around and grinning at the camera, she joins ‘Beast’ for a dance and Brandon slow dances with her before getting down on one knee and removing his mask. Morgan excitedly shouts ‘daddy’ before looking at him in shock, and then giving Brandon a big hug shouting ‘daddy’ again. To surprise Jax, Elizabeth, from California, USA, took him out to buy donuts and while they were ordering in the store, Brandon was already there to surprise his son. While Elizabeth is filming Jax, she tells him to pick his donut and as he looks up, spots Brandon and says ‘hello daddy’ before running over into his arms for a hug.