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James' brush with fame

Did you catch the kids’ takeover Telethon segment on the weekend? If so, you may have spied James Fernihough hanging out with Ch 7 television personality Andrew Denton in the The Kids Discovery Centre.

Did you catch the kids’ takeover Telethon segment on the weekend? 

If so, you may have spied James Fernihough hanging out with Ch 7 television personality Andrew Denton in the The Kids Discovery Centre.

James was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 10 and was involved in the live cross with Andrew and 11-year-old Rose (pictured right with Andrew and James), who was the guest reporter for the kids’ segment.

The 17-year-old has been involved in diabetes research for the Children’s Diabetes Centre at The Kids Research Institute Australia since 2016 and travelled to Canberra as a youth advocate for JDRF last year to successfully lobby the Australian Government to commit $50 million towards type 1 diabetes research. Way to go James!