TV Anchorwoman Reveals Early Starts For Breakfast Show “Might Have Caused Her Premature Dementia”
deadline.comBritish TV presenter Fiona Phillips announced in 2022 that she had been diagnosed with early-onset dementia. Now, in an interview, the 62-year-old former TV host has revealed she believes her 11-year run of presenting breakfast television could have caused her to get the disease at a relatively young age.
Phillips, who used to get up at around 3am for her shifts presenting ITV breakfast show GMTV between 1997 and 2008, told Woman&Home Magazine: “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.” Phillips shared that she had benefited from being put on a drugs trial in an attempt to slow down her symptoms, a protocol she said seemed to be working.
She said: “I’m taking part in a revolutionary drug trial that’s trying to find a cure. It involves a brand-new drug and a placebo, and I have no idea which one I’m on. ”When I went for my six-month check-up in October, they did cognitive tests to see where my brain was at, which showed that I was in the same place as I was the previous year. “I’m hopeful that the drug is holding the disease where it is.
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