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For decades, Fiona Phillips was known to millions as the warm, familiar face who helped Britain wake up each morning.
Confident, quick-witted and instantly recognisable from her years on television, she built a career around conversation, connection and remembering the stories of other people.Fiona Phillips’s husband on her life with Alzheimer’s: ‘Bit by bit, she’s not there’
Away from the television studios and public appearances that once defined so much of her working life, Fiona is living through an intensely personal battle with Alzheimer’s disease — while her husband, former television executive Martin Frizell, has found himself confronting a reality no partner ever wants to face.
He is watching the woman with whom he built a marriage, raised a family and shared decades of memories gradually lose access to parts of the life they created together.
And perhaps the most painful part is that there is no single moment when everything changes.
Instead, there are small losses.
A forgotten celebration.
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A recent conversation that disappears.
A familiar event that no longer carries the memory it once did.
Little by little, the landscape of everyday life shifts.She doesn’t know I’m her husband’ Martin Frizell on life with Fiona Phillips and her Alzheimer’s diagnosis | This Morning