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This week on Walking the Dog, I went to Redding to chapter TV presenter Simon Thomas. I'd always been aware of Simon from his years

presenting Blue Peter and on Sky Sports but two years ago he became a high profile figure

for a reason he would never have chosen. He lost his wife

Gemma to cancer. Simon opened up on social media during his period of loss

which really struck a chord with people as he talked about getting through it

all with his son and now he's written a book about his experience it's called

love interrupted and it's a really moving account of what happened I had such a nice day out with Simon. I took my dog Raymond along for our

Riverside stroll and we talked about a lot of things, what it felt like to suddenly deal with

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