EXCLUSIVE: ‘My longest relationship was four months’: The Chase’s Anne Hegerty, 62, admits her autism has stopped her finding love as she learns her emotional intelligence is at 1% By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 08:51 GMT, 28 January 2021 | Updated: 15:11 GMT, 28 January 2021 The Chase star Anne Hegerty has shed light … Read more
X Factor winner Sam Bailey has admitted she feels ‘sick to her stomach’ that she didn’t pick up the signs of her son’s autism sooner. The singer, 43, who won the tenth series of reality show in 2013, learned of her son Tommy’s condition in July, after noticing signs in his behaviour around four years … Read more
Big Brother’s Nicole Franzel has lost an Olay endorsement after she was seen with others mocking Ian Terry, a houseguest who is on the autism spectrum. Franzel, 28, was fired by sponsors including Olay after she was seen on a live feed with castmates Memphis Garrett, Christmas Abbott, Dani Briones making fun of Terry and … Read more
Big Brother: All-Stars contestants have come under fire for mocking a fellow houseguest with autism. Memphis Garrett, Christmas Abbott, Dani Briones, and Nicole Franzel were seen on live feeds laughing and making fun of Ian Terry, a houseguest on the autism spectrum, and his self-soothing technique of rocking back and forth. Memphis compared Ian to … Read more
Getting the flu jab while pregnant doesn’t increase the baby’s risk of being diagnosed with autism later on, another study has found. Researchers in Sweden compared autism diagnoses among seven-year-old children whose mothers had a swine flu vaccine during pregnancy and those whose did not. Of almost 70,000 children, 39,700 had been exposed to the … Read more
Pregnant women who smoke cannabis almost double the risk of their baby being born autistic, warns a new study. In the largest ever study of its kind, researchers found that children whose mothers reported using cannabis during pregnancy were at greater risk of autism. The incidence of autism was four per 1,000 person-years among children … Read more
The NHS has launched an ‘urgent’ review after figures showed death rates of people with learning disabilities and autism have doubled during the Covid-19 crisis. The dramatic U-turn comes after it had previously reassured the deaths of people in this group had been ‘within expected range’. Analysis of data by two separate organisations showed that in … Read more
Controversial YouTuber Myka Stauffer is finally addressing the ‘uproar’ over her decision to ‘rehome’ her five-year-old adopted son Huxley. Stauffer apologized for the ‘confusion and pain’ she caused after she and husband James revealed they were placing the son they adopted from China in 2017 in the care of another family. ‘This decision has caused so … Read more
Anti-vaxxer Pete Evans says Australia should flatten the curve of AUTISM instead of coronavirus – after falsely claiming a link between vaccines and behavioural issues in children By Jo Scrimshire For Daily Mail Australia Published: 21:53 BST, 31 May 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 31 May 2020 Anti-vaxxer and former My Kitchen Rules judge Pete … Read more
‘I can clearly see it and it’s not easy’: Jean-Christophe Novelli admits lockdown has woken him up to son Valentino’s extreme autism The celebrated French chef is at home with fiancée Michelle Kennedy and their three children, Jean, 11, Jacques, seven, and three-year old Valentino Valentino was diagnosed autism in December 2019, little more than … Read more