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Eamonn Holmes and James Jordan issue stark warning after sudden health woes

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Eamonn Holmes, 62, and former Strictly Come Dancing professional James Jordan, 44, have teamed up in order to educate others about the dangers of shingles after new research from GSK highlighted gaps in public awareness.The GSK-commissioned survey revealed that 48 per cent of participants incorrectly believed that they could catch shingles from someone else while four in 10 did not know that pain affecting a specific area of skin is a key feature of shingles.This is precisely what happened to both James and Eamonn, despite the pair developing the skin condition in different areas of their body.Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Eamonn explained that he went to bed one day and woke up the next “looking like Quasimodo”.“My face was covered in blisters,” Eamonn continued. “I had absolutely no idea what it was.

I went to the doctors and they thought it could be shingles so asked if I'd had chickenpox.“I had no idea but my mother told me I had had chickenpox as a youngster and that was the first bit of putting the jigsaw together.“Because of my age and maybe stressful situations I have been in, my immune system had been weakened and it’s no surprise I developed shingles.“But it was awful, that is the only way I can describe it.

It was like having just bigger versions of cold sores over my face.”Due to the location of Eamonn’s shingles, he was forced to have three weeks off of work, but disappointingly the virus struck on the weekend of his eldest son’s wedding.Sharing his story, James explained that he was in a similar situation to Eamonn, having discovered his shingles whilst holidaying with his family, including wife Ola Jordan and daughter Ella.He explained: “I was on holiday, with my mum, Ola and my daughter."My dad.

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