Fiona Phillips gives update on dementia diagnosis as she reveals 'it's taken so many members of my family'
ok.co.ukBritish TV legend Fiona Phillips has revealed that she believes her stint on breakfast television may have contributed to her early Alzheimer's diagnosis.The television presenter, who has been in the TV industry for decades, announced that she had been diagnosed with the disease in July this year aged just 61.
Opening up about her life, Fiona, now 62, said she often wonders if 3am starts for 11 years while she was presenting ITV's GMTV between 1997 and 2008 contributed to getting the disease so early.
She said: "I ask myself why I got this dreadful disease. I wonder whether all the years of getting up so early when I was working on GMTV contributed to me getting Alzheimer's so young." Fiona, who worked alongside Eamonn Holmes on the show which began at 6am, has now been put on a drugs trial to try and slow down the symptoms.
In an interview with Women&Home magazine, Fiona said: "I'm on a clinical trial and the signs are positive. "I'm taking part in a revolutionary drug trial that's trying to find a cure.
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