Jerry Travers: Last News

EX-EASTENDERS star Jonny Labey has opened up about his diabetes diagnosis and how he hopes to inspire others with the condition.  The TV and theatre actor was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes as a a teenager. The chronic condition means the pancreas doesn’t make enough insulin to support the body, meaning sugar doesn’t enter the cells and produce energy needed to function.  As Jonny, best known for playing Paul Coker on EastEnders, prepares to perform his new show Top Hat, the 29-year-old revealed the scary moment he realised he was sick and needed help.  "It was during the GCSE stresses and apart from a general lack of sleep from exams, I was unexplainably tired and felt that no matter how much or quickly I drank, I'd still be thirsty,” he told The Sun Online.  “So, I got tested as I measured my blood on my Grandad's monitor and it was 26.6, which is dangerously low, so I went immediately to hospital - and the rest is history!"  "It was very cautiously measured in the beginning, but didn't have too much of an effect apart from the occasional realisation moment.

Hulu K-drama is all the rage right now — and unlike the grisly “Squid Game,” this new series is a rom-com that tells the love story between Han Ji-Yool (Choo Yeong-Woo), veterinarian from Seoul, who meets policewoman An Ja-Young (Park Soo-young) from a rural village when he goes to take over his grandfather’s animal clinic. Where to watch: NetflixWhy why not watch a silver-screen classic? The 1935 movie starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers is a screwball comedy following Jerry Travers (Astaire), an American tap dancer who comes to star in a show in London, where he tries to impress Dale Tremont (Rogers), who mistakes him for her friend’s husband. Where to watch: 5:30 p.m. on TCM.They’ll be here for you.