Gareth Malone's 'devastating' health condition explained - 'hard to come to terms with'

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Celebrity Masterchef. But away from his television work, Malone has spoken about feeling "very lucky" that his tinnitus is only mild, but warns others about the importance of looking after their hearing.

Possibly one of the worst conditions for a choirmaster to develop, after being diagnosed back in 2013, Malone found it "hard to come to terms with" and spoke about how "upset" he was. "As a musician, the thought of losing your hearing is devastating," Malone shared back in 2021. "You immediately think of Beethoven going deaf and still composing music, and you think, 'Could I do that?

How would I go about it?' It would be very hard to come to terms with. "I was pretty upset about it," he says. "I realised it wasn't something that could be fixed but something I'd have to learn to live with. "For Malone, problems with his hearing started suddenly after he had caught a common cold virus and developed a sinus infection. READ MORE: The skin cancer sign to spot 'under the armpit' before the disease becomes incurableHe continued to explain: "I developed quite a bad sinus infection and I was on the sofa for two weeks and on antibiotics.

By the end, I was aware I could hear a high-pitched sound which I thought was a mosquito, or the fridge or television. "Driven by distraction the star tried anything to figure out whether the source of the sound was in his head or not.