Back in May we helped launch Britain’s Next Top Dog – a new competition looking for the country’s most photogenic canines with all proceeds going to Cancer Research UK.
The entries poured in and more than £30,000 was raised as a panel of dog-loving celebrities including Clare Balding, Graham Norton, Stephen Fry, Nigel Havers and Gabby Logan chose six category winners, before the public voted for Britain’s ultimate Next Top Dog.
It’s been a triumph for its instigator Fee Sharples, a retired nurse from Norfolk who was diagnosed with cancer in 2014.
‘Every day something wonderful has happened,’ she says. ‘It’s buoyed me up so much, as well as raising money to fight cancer and celebrating our love of dogs.’
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10:30 AM May 15, 2021
Jake Humphrey has been confirmed as a judge for Britain’s Next Top Dog 2021, inspired by a nurse from Norfolk
- Credit: Cancer Research UK
A retired Norfolk nurse has helped inspire some of the nation s best-loved celebrities to throw their weight behind a new show to find the country’s best pet pooches.
Fee Sharples, 65 and from Hardingham, has raised funds for life-saving research after she was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer.
Fee Sharples, pictured with her three-year old black Labrador, Inca, and her 12-year-old Norfolk terrier, Pickle
- Credit: Cancer Research UK
With the support of her husband John, a retired army officer, Mrs Sharples has pledged to give back to Cancer Research UK for the life-saving treatment she has received since her diagnosis in 2014.