{"id":2830,"date":"2024-09-30T12:50:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T11:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2024-09-30T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T11:50:49","slug":"with-heavy-hearts-we-announce-the-passing-when-you-find-out-who-she-is-you-will-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"With heavy hearts, we announce the passing \u2013 When you find out who she is, you will cry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dame Deborah James, host of the BBC\u2019s\u00a0You, Me<\/em>\u00a0and the<\/em>\u00a0Big C\u00a0<\/em>podcast, died aged 40.<\/p>\n

James was a mother of two. She battled bowel cancer that she was diagnosed with in 2016.<\/p>\n

Her passing was announced by her family who posted a tribute to her on the social media. \u201cWe are deeply saddened to announce the death of Dame Deborah James; the most amazing wife, daughter, sister, mummy,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n

She passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family.<\/p>\n

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James was an advocate for cancer awareness, and her recognition for cancer fundraising brought her a damehood.<\/p>\n

She shared her personal struggles with cancer in order to \u201craise awareness, break down barriers, challenge taboos and change the conversation around cancer,\u201d her family said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven in her most challenging moments, her determination to raise money and awareness was inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following her diagnosis, after which she was only given two years to live by the doctors, James, who beat the odds and lived six years more than that, started a blog,\u00a0Bowel Babe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Through her blog, she tried to fight the taboos surrounding the life with this condition and was given a column in\u00a0The Sun\u00a0<\/em>the following year.<\/p>\n

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This cherished deputy head teacher who specialized in computer science and e-learning started the\u00a0You, Me<\/em>\u00a0and the<\/em>\u00a0Big C\u00a0<\/em>podcast on\u00a0BBC\u00a0<\/em>along with fellow cancer fighters Lauren Mahon and Rachael Bland, who died in 2019, a year after the podcast started.<\/p>\n

In her first book that was published in 2018,\u00a0F*** You Cancer: How to Face the Big C, Live Your Life, and Still Be Yourself<\/em>, James addressed her children, Hugo and Eloise, who were nine and seven when she received her devastating diagnosis.<\/p>\n

\u201cHugo and Eloise, you are my world. You are my everything and I love you beyond comprehension. Know that whatever happens I am with you, I\u2019m at your side and I believe you can do anything you want to do. I\u2019m so proud of you and all I ask for you in life is to make the most of every single day,\u201d she\u00a0wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n

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James\u2019\u00a0Bowelbabe Fund<\/em>\u00a0that she set up in order to fund medical research into personalised medicine for cancer patients and to raise awareness of bowel cancer raised over \u00a31m in the first month.<\/p>\n

Dame Deborah James was an exceptional woman. May she rest in peace.<\/p>\n

Please SHARE this article with your family and friends on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dame Deborah James, host of the BBC\u2019s\u00a0You, Me\u00a0and the\u00a0Big C\u00a0podcast, died aged 40. James was a mother of two. She battled bowel cancer that she was diagnosed with in 2016. Her passing was announced by her family who posted a tribute to her on the social media. \u201cWe are deeply saddened to announce the death […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}