Missed Opportunity!

Maureen Chadwick

Last night, Saturday 30th January 2016, whilst at a friend’s house, I received a message from another friend asking me to watch ‘The Jonathon Ross Show’, where Johnny Vegas was talking about diabetes in a comical fashion.

So today I looked for myself, via The ITV Hub, yes entertaining and funny but what an amazing diabetes health education opportunity missed.

Johnny Vegas had been approached by a ‘diabetes association’ to present at an event assuming wrongly that he lived with diabetes – he made it noticeably clear he does not.

He went on to express the trauma of every time he has a health check Health Professionals appeared disappointed by his lack of diagnosis – talk about stigma!

He laughs it off by saying ‘…… I am just a fat git!’

Then without coaxing, James Norton (actor from War and Peace BBC) shared that he does have diabetes and expresses that there are two types of diabetes – end of the conversation.

I know it was and is a light entertainment show, but I have to say I was so disappointed that more information was not revealed.

James Norton clearly a successful young actor and very obviously, diabetes aware.

If he had just been asked the right questions by Jonathon Ross, such clarity in a positive way about diabetes could have ensued.

Maybe next time!

First published LinkedIn, 31 January 2016

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