Strong: Life, loss and eternal love for my daughter

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The iconic London attraction turned orange in honour of the eight-month -old and to mark World AML (Acute Myeloid Leukaemia) Day. On the other hand, one other huge aspect of Jakes personality I admire, is his ability to be vulnerable and speak openly about his mental health. Despite her condition, she is the happiest and most energetic person in the room and as much as we're trying to be there and help her, she's always the one fueling the flame of hope for us all! And Ashley has taken on some big ones – from successfully competing in TV’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, to completing five marathons in five days, climbing western Europe’s highest mountain, the 16,000ft Mont Blanc, and cycling 1,700 miles across the Continent– all in one month!

All the challenges and targets – in fact pretty much everything that Ashley does in his life every day – are for Azaylia, who died aged just eight months from a rare form of leukaemia in 2021, and for children like her.JLS fans go wild as boyband announces new tour dates for summer 2024: 'This just gave me goosebumps! But, in a heartbreaking on social media, Ashley announced the sad death of his daughter on April 25 last year. Next month, he flies to Canada to undertake the Yukon challenge, a thousand-mile kayak race through the Arctic Circle to Alaska, which results in fatalities every year.

As we said earlier, everything Ashley does is driven and influenced by the love for his daughter, including his TV work. Former BBC Radio 1 presenter, mental health advocate, 'Happy Place' author and podcaster Fearne Cotton joins me on the podcast! Today, Jake still holds the same love and pain for his father and brother, but now he better understands his emotions and how grief can be used to celebrate the love you still have for someone who is no longer here.

It comes after Ashley posted a video of his heartbreaking eulogy in which he detailed how becoming a dad to Azaylia ‘saved’ his life. We want to change a system that considers childhood cancer to be rare, and as a result, has been underfunding childhood cancer for too long. I learnt quite a lot about Ashley that I didn’t really know about him at the beginning of the book and how he got to we’re he is now. Eating a mince pie saved my life - it led to my breast cancer diagnosis: 39-year-old mother tells how she. Surviving trauma can be a gruelling journey, but through the darkness I have learnt to live a more purposeful life by using the idea of a “fierce mind" and a "kind heart” in everything I do.