Journalist Deborah James: English journalist, podcast host and charity campaigner

Dame Deborah Anne James DBE (1 October 1981 – 28 June 2022) was an English journalist, podcast host and charity campaigner.

Dame

Deborah James

Born
Deborah Anne James

(1981-10-01)1 October 1981
Died28 June 2022(2022-06-28) (aged 40)
Woking, Surrey, England
Cause of deathBowel cancer
Alma materUniversity of Exeter
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • podcast host
  • charity campaigner
Known forYou, Me and the Big C
Spouse
Sebastian Bowen (m. 2008)
Children2

In 2016, she was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer. She later began to host the You, Me and the Big C podcast on BBC Radio 5 about her struggles with her illness.

In May 2022, James said she began treatment under hospice care. Less than 48 hours after her post, over £3 million was raised for her campaign, the Bowelbabe Fund. Two days later, James was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

In her final days, James lived at her parents' house in Woking, Surrey, where she died on 28 June 2022, aged 40, from cancer.

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