UK Radio Presenter Jamie Theakston Says That Attentive Listeners Saved His Life Before Cancer Diagnosis
deadline.comUK radio presenter Jamie Theakston is back at work having undertaken several months of cancer treatment, and he says he has his regular listeners to thank for helping save his life.
Theakston co-presents the Heart Radio breakfast show alongside Amanda Holden, and has been on air for two decades, following a successful television presenting career.
Theakston told The Times of London that regular listeners had been tuning in attentively, and several had notified him of a change in his voice on air, urging him to have it medically checked: “You do the show for 20 years, and you get a sore throat and it comes and goes.
But there were a couple of listeners who said, ‘You really need to get it checked.’ And I guess in many ways that sort of saved my life.
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