Dame Deborah James: The Last Dance highlighted the five-year battle of a mother of two with stage four bowel cancer – which she unfortunately lost on Tuesday – through the eyes of friends who supported her. The 30-minute program also included private moments the late activist shared with her family – such as her reaction to the el 1 million Bowelbabe fundraiser, receiving treatment and dancing with her 14-year-old son Hugo at Beauty and the Beast’s Tale As Old As Χρόνος. Dame Deborah, a former assistant teacher and mother of Hugo and 12-year-old Eloise with her husband Sebastien Bowen, was diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer in 2016. She lost her battle with cancer on Tuesday, her family said after weeks of care. at the end of her life at her parents’ house in Surrey. He set up the Bowelbabe Fund to raise awareness and fund clinical trials and research on personalized medicine – and initially hoped to raise 250 250,000. On Wednesday afternoon, the 7 7 million mark was reached, as donations increased in the hours after her death. The activist’s closest friends led the moving tributes to her in the documentary. Cancer activist Lauren Mahon, 37, who presented the BBC’s You, Me and the Big C with Dame Deborah and their late girlfriend Rachael Bland, broke down as she said: “I love her so much.” TV presenter Lorraine Kelly, who supported Dame Deborah’s cancer awareness campaigns, called her late friend a “destroyer” and said she would always “bounce”, which made her death so “difficult” to accept. Dame Deborah James’s shocking BBC documentary pays tribute to viewers after she showed emotional family moments – including dancing with her son (pictured) and reacting with joy as her fundraising page reached 1 million £ In one of the family videos shown on the show, Deborah appears to be dancing with her young son shortly after her diagnosis in 2016 (pictured) The 30-minute program also included her response to the el 1 million Bowel Babe fundraiser (above) Cancer activist Lauren Mahon, 37, who presented the BBC’s You, Me and the Big C with Dame Deborah and their late girlfriend Rachael Bland, erupted as she said: “I love her so much.” TV presenter Lorraine Kelly, who supported Dame Deborah’s cancer awareness campaigns, called her late friend a “smasher” and said she would always “bounce back”, which made her death so “difficult” to accept. Dame Deborah James: The Last Dance discovered the battle of the mother of two with stage four bowel cancer, through the eyes of the friends who supported her Viewers burst into tears as they watched the documentary, with one person saying: “A heartbreaking watch and a beautiful tribute to a handsome man. She will miss him. ” I just watched Dame Deborah James: The Last Dance. I’m crying. He was such an amazing person. What an inspiration. “Life can be so hard,” another wrote on Twitter. During the program, Lauren Mahon and Steve Bland, Rachael’s widow, were overwhelmed with emotion as they remembered their “best friend” and said they were “incredibly grateful to have her at all.” As she wiped her tears, Lauren made a heartfelt appeal to continue raising money for cancer research because “we can no longer lose Debs.” “Relationships with people with cancer are really difficult because you lose people,” Lauren said as she cried. “There are people and there is Deborah and I can only be incredibly grateful that I had her at all.” He added that he wishes the fighter could see what he meant by “so many”. “I love her so much. “We have to keep raising money because we can not lose other Debs,” he said.
Reaction: Social media users took to Twitter today to say they were left crying over the emotional program
Steve Bland, who lost his wife Rachael to breast cancer in 2018, said Deborah was one of his best friends, a “brilliant mom” pictured on the left, while Lauren Mahon cried as he said he loved her. Dame Deborah and that he had friendships with people. with cancer is “really difficult”, as shown on the right
After sharing her life experiences with the disease on social media, Deborah became known as “Bowel Babe” and in 2018, she joined Lauren Mahon and Rachael Bland to present the award-winning podcast You, Me and the Big C on Radio 5. Live
Deborah (pictured far left, with Lauren Mahon and right, with her brother and fiancée) was made a woman by the Duke of Cambridge at her family home, with William praising her for “trying to do something” very special. memory’
Remembering her friend, with whom she co-starred on the BBC’s You, Me and Big C podcast, Lauren said: .
“Most would get away with it, but Deb wanted to tell her story so it would not be anyone’s story. “I’m really proud that we are now talking about bums and villains on every channel.”
Lorraine Kelly, who met Dame Deborah through her campaign and launched the No Butts campaign with her, also remembered her friend.
I was looking at someone with stage IV bowel cancer. It was absolutely flawless, it always was. beautiful hair and makeup and perfect, “he said.
“And I could not believe I was with a girl who was living on loan.
On May 9, the mother of two shared a heartbreaking “goodbye” message to her 470,000 followers on Instagram, revealing that she was being taken to a hostel at home while “surrounded by family” because “my body just isn’t”. I’m not playing ball ‘
“All he wanted to do was pass this message on, make sure no one else went through the same thing with her, make sure everyone had the information they needed and stop people being stupid about their bottom line.” , he added.
“It simply came to my notice then. We started talking about the bottom and where probably after 45 seconds when we met and I really thought: “I like you very much, you are my wife’s kind, you are a shredder”.
“The thing with it is, and the thing that is so difficult, is that it always bounced, and I always thought it would.
“And that was very difficult because we always thought he would be here,” the presenter added.
Durability: Deborah James was photographed with her mother Heather James two months ago after one of her most recent surgeries
In recent weeks, Deborah has made the most of her time out, going out for days that were exhausting due to her condition. However, she remained positive and posted about how much she liked outings like the one at Royal Ascot
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In December 2016, the mother of two children in West London, deputy head, was diagnosed “late” with incurable bowel cancer After sharing her life experiences with the disease on social media, Deborah became known as the “Baby of the Intestine” In 2018, she became one of the three presenters on Radio 5 Live, You, Me and the Big C, which was captured by the late co-presenter Rachael Bland. On September 5, 2018, Welsh journalist and presenter Bland, who was diagnosed with end-stage breast cancer, died at the age of 40.
Deborah and co-host Lauren Mahon continued to present the show, with Rachael’s husband Steve Bland joining the duo.
On social media and in her column for The Sun, Deborah recorded the many sessions of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery she has had since
In 2018, Deborah (left) teamed up with Lauren Mahon (front) and Rachael Bland (right) to present the award-winning podcast You, Me and the Big C on Radio 5 Live
In 2019, she underwent a procedure known as CyberKnife, a highly targeted form of radiation therapy to attack an unoperated lymph node near her liver. The impact of the pandemic on cancer services led her campaign to continue normally and, earlier this year, she launched ITV Lorraine’s “No Butts” campaign to raise awareness about the symptoms of bowel cancer. Since last year, she has been taking new experimental drugs as part of a trial after her oncology team gave her the green light to do so. In August, Deborah revealed that scans she had done in recent days revealed that her cancer had gone in the “wrong direction very quickly.” She told her followers she would take a social media break at the weekend to “fool around” with her family before more scans. The mother of two said a new “fast-growing” tumor near her liver had wrapped around her bowel. On October 1, Deborah celebrated her 40th birthday By October 18, the mother of two told her followers that her chemotherapy was working Days later, he was rushed to A&E with “high temperatures of 40 degrees” In November, she revealed that she could not walk for more than 20 minutes and remained “very weak”. By December, Deborah said she was “not sure what her options were” after her liver stent “stopped working”. In January, he underwent five surgeries in 10 days after nearly dying in an acute medical emergency On January 25, Deborah returned home from the hospital after three weeks On March 14, the mother of two returned to the hospital as an inpatient after a septic infection In April, she occupied her fans with snapshots after “difficult days” On April 14, the mother of two told her fans that she had been discharged from the hospital but described the situation as “very harsh”. On April 27, he told Lorraine Kelly that he had spent “80 percent” of his time in hospital. On May 9, Deborah announced that she had moved to a hostel
Steve Bland, who lost his wife Rachael to triple-negative breast cancer in September 2018, was also among the people who remembered her in the emotional film. “She is one of my best friends and …
