Lorraine Kelly has led the tributes to the late Dame Deborah James in a new BBC documentary after she tragically died age 40 after a five-year battle with bowel cancer.
The journalist and broadcaster, who went by the nickname "bowel babe", "passed away peacefully" on Tuesday 28 June, her family shared in a statement on her Instagram.
Deborah devastatingly announced on 9 May that she had moved to end-of-life care. She explained that despite all of her treatments, her body just wasn’t “playing ball”, and that she was receiving hospice care at her parents' house.
In that time, she campaigned tirelessly to raise awareness about cancer and, after that post, she raised a staggering £6.7million and a further £1million for her collection with In The Style, all for cancer charities.
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