Dame Deborah James’ podcast co-host pays tribute at awards after her death

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Dame Deborah James was paid a heartfelt tribute by her You, Me & The Big C podcast co-host after the series won an award last night,

Her co-host and friend Lauren Mahon did the honours of accepting the award on the late campaigner’s behalf, and also gave recognition to their fellow presenter Rachael Bland, who died aged 40 in 2018.

In her acceptance speech, Lauren, 37, said: ‘Me and Deb had a little joke when Rachael died that I couldn’t just do the podcast by myself because I couldn’t call it Me, Me and the Big C.Lauren started the You, Me & The Big C podcast with Rachael and Dame Deborah in 2018 ‘The podcast is our happy place. It’s a bit surreal to be standing here without both my girls. We knew this was a risk, that some of us would die when we started it, but we wanted to continue to champion it.

Closing her speech, the podcaster revealed: ‘Last time we won at these awards, we dedicated the award to Rachael.You, Me & The Big C podcast host Dame Deborah James has admirably raised money towards cancer charities after announcing that her own bowel cancer was now terminal.due to her cancer treatment being stopped last month.

At the start of June, the fund had so far raised £6.6million to go towards clinical trials and research into personalised medicine for cancer patients and supporting campaigns to raise awareness of bowel cancer.‘I’m so proud to say that this is for Dame Deborah f*****g James.’

 

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