A fit and healthy yoga instructor made the brave decision to go under the knife for a preventative double mastectomy to reduce her risk of cancer - only to be diagnosed with leukaemia the following year.
Sophie Gray, from the UK but living in Australia, was 28 when she found out she carried the BRCA gene which is a common precursor for breast cancer in women.
So she decided to remove her breasts to giver her the best chance of a cancer-free life.
Shortly after she moved to Australia to live her best life and told FEMAIL she believed she had dodged a bullet .
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Perhaps the boss should attend!
ITV’s director of television, Kevin Lygo, might consider attending some of the network’s classes, having once shocked the TV industry with some far-from-politically-correct comments.
Speaking in Edinburgh in 2017, he said: ‘There are quite enough gay people in television.’ He also referred to a sun-tanned white colleague as being of ‘Asian background’. After the MoS revealed ITV featured just one non-white anchor during a day of broadcasts in 2019, he pledged to improve the situation: ‘We will have more lead presenters, lead actors on screen. There aren’t enough leads in dramas. That we have got to work on.’ There has been a significant increase in black and ethnic minority representation since then.