Hours after his death was announced, BBC viewers watched a final message from George Alagiah, the newsreader and television presenter, in which he said he had “gotten to a place to see life as a gift”.
Alagiah died at the age of 67, nearly a decade after he had been diagnosed with bowel cancer.
At the end of Monday’s edition of the News At Six, the bulletin he used to presented, his former colleague Sophie Raworth revealed Alagiah had hoped to come into the BBC studio one last time to thank the viewers but did not get the chance.
In a video montage which featured clips and pictures, Alagiah admitted it had taken him time to process when he was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014.
“For me, I had to get a place of contentment and the only way I knew how to do that was literally to look back at my life”, he said.
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