Britain’s Got Talent star Tom Ball on living with diabetes
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West Sussex-based Britain’s Got Talent star Tom Ball, with a debut album coming out and his music career taking off phenomenally, says he feels a responsibility to talk publicly about a happy and successful life lived despite years of diabetes.
Former teacher Tom, from Burgess Hill and now living in Handcross, credits the incredible new 'artificial pancreas' technology for so much of what he has been able to achieve. He wants to use the platform his music has given him to offer a message of hope on the back of it.
“I've got the platform that I'm so lucky to have and if I started displaying an unhealthy way of living with diabetes perhaps it would encourage young people to do the same. I can't do that. I've got to be a role model for newly-diagnosed people and I want to be able to show people that you can do anything you want to, that you can really move forward in a positive way and that I'm 100 per cent fine so long as I do what I have to do.