It is no longer news that popular BBC news presenter, Rachael Bland, has died peacefully after losing battle to an incurable cancer disease.
Below are notable 15 things about the beautiful presenter who died at the age of 40…
- Rachael Bland was born on the 21st January 1978 and gave up the ghost on the 5th of September, 2018. She was a Welsh journalist and a presenter with BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC North West Tonight.
- She married BBC Radio 5 Live producer Steve Bland on the 3rd of September 2013, meaning she died 5 years and 2 days after her wedding.
- Their union was blessed with a son, Freddie, who is now two years of age.
- Bland was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer in November 2016.
- In the early stages of her condition, she continued to present Radio 5 Live, saying she would rather be known as “Rachael the news presenter” than “Rachael the cancer patient”
- Following the diagnosis, Bland started presenting the BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C to raise awareness of cancer, discussing the disease with celebrities and providing advice of how to manage it.
- In May, Rachael Bland announced that her cancer had spread and was now incurable.
- She had hoped that clinical treatment would still be available so she could live longer.
- She continued to blog and run You, Me and the Big C, and hoped that she could do enough to give her son memories of her life.
- Towards the end of her life, she announced she had written her memoirs, which she hoped would be published some day.
- In June, a crowdfunding site was set up in order to allow her to have a family holiday while she still could.
- In August 2018, Bland announced that she had less than a year to live.
- On 3 September, she announced on her Twitter account that her “time had come”, and that she only had days left.
- Rachael Bland died two days later at the age of 40
- You, Me and the Big C reached number one on the iTunes Podcast charts during this week.
