ITV’S Lorraine Kelly has always supported Sun columnist Deborah James.
Deborah has featured many times on the show – in order to raise awareness of bowel cancer signs and symptoms.
But in a truly touching display of friendship, Lorraine, 62, managed to sneak in an ode to her friend on tonight’s episode of Gogglebox on Channel 4.
Posting to Instagram today, Lorraine revealed a snippet from the show, which she has taken part in with her daughter Rosie Kelly Smith and sausage dog Ruby.
During the clip, Rosie is seen wearing Deborah’s Rebellious Hope t-shirt.
It’s through the sales of these t-shirts alone that the podcaster and campaigner has managed to raise over £1million for the BowelBabe fund.
TO DONATE to the BowelBabe Fund visit www.bowelbabe.org
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Over the weekend, Debs told how she was overjoyed after her campaign for fashion brand In The Style managed to boost the donations.
The 40-year-old, says the range’s message of ‘Rebellious Hope’ “keeps her going” as she receives end-of-life care.
She said: “Rebellious Hope’ is what has got me through the last few years and it’s what is keeping me going now!” she said.
“Seeing all your messages, tags and support has just been the best and I am so grateful that we have been able to do this together!”
Over the last few weeks Bowelbabe has continued to campaign to raise both money and awareness for bowel cancer.
The 40-year-old has now inspired a major change to packs of loo roll after calling for packaging to list symptoms of the disease.
Andrex has now committed to raising awareness of symptoms over its products from July, following Marks & Spencer.
Earlier this month Deborah appeared on Lorraine to urge more brands to signpost people to deadly cancer signs.
Deborah said: “It’s the start of things to come, I think we should now do a big shout out to other companies now, saying come on where’s your signs and symptoms.
“Forget about the puppies, I’m bored of the puppies.
“We need actual information signposted on those loo rolls so I’m hoping lots of other big brands will now go “yeah, hang on, this makes massive sense. This is what we need to be doing”.
Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK and the second biggest cancer killer.
- To pre-order Deborah’s book visit Amazon
- Her t-shirt is available through In the Style in sizes 6-28
- The Dame Deborah James rose, Bare Root, is available at World of Roses
