The Celebrity Hunted series is in aid of Stand Up To Cancer and Dowden was determined to show the reality of life after diagnosis.<\/p>\n
She had to balance life on the run with her regular treatment, allowing the cameras to follow her as she received chemotherapy injections.<\/p>\n
“It was important to show the reality of cancer,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, a cancer diagnosis is like a life sentence.”<\/p>\n
Dowden said she hoped to start conversations in people’s homes about the realities of facing up to cancer.<\/p>\n
It also had an impact on her partner with Gu saying that it was “hard” to see Dowden have her treatment on the journey.<\/p>\n
“You don’t have enough sleep, you don’t have good food, you’re always constantly on the run,” he added.<\/p>\n
After losing both his grandmother and a cousin to cancer, Gu said he understood what she had been facing and naturally became one of the people she leaned on the most.<\/p>\n
He called her an inspiration, saying that she “gave me the faith that I’m going to do this no matter how hard it is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celebrity Hunted series is in aid of Stand Up To Cancer and Dowden was determined to show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}