{"id":724220,"date":"2026-08-02T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724220\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:08:10","slug":"ellen-roome-tells-holly-willoughby-memories-of-son-keeps-her-brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724220\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Roome tells Holly Willoughby memories of son keeps her &#8216;brave&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told former This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby: &#8220;Jools was the most beautiful, happy boy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are days that getting out of bed is hard and you just think, &#8216;What am I getting up for?&#8217; And I would watch that video and go, &#8216;Right, Jools, off we go&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I was really campaigning hard, I&#8217;d walk past the stairs and go, &#8216;come on Jools, got stuff to do&#8217;, as if he&#8217;s still alive. Taking him with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking in an upcoming episode from her YouTube series Together, Willoughby spoke to Roome, who lives in Cheltenham, about how she has become a leading figure in the campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c79y3wddlg1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to ban social media use<\/a> for children in Britain since Jools&#8217; death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has also campaigned to get an amendment to the law that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yk7z7k4dyo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">force social media companies to give parents access to their child&#8217;s data<\/a> in the event of their death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked by Willoughby if her son would be proud of her work, Roome said yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She told former This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby: &#8220;Jools was the most beautiful, happy boy. &#8220;There are days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724220","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\/724220","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=724220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}