hellobeautifulcreatures

Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine is happy to tackle almost any subject on his show — whether it’s his huge BBC salary or a health scare that’s troubling him.  Here, in the final exclusive extract from his  memoirs, he talks about when he feared he had skin cancer, a bout of depression — and the life lessons that his small children have taught him . . . Here's a question: what do you do when you look at your reflection and you see a mole you have never noticed before? Just after the whole Strictly madness came to a juddering halt, I stood naked in front of the bathroom mirror and noticed a deep brown freckle under my left collarbone. The freckle was the size of the nail on your little toe. Not big, but had it been there before? I spoke to the Radio 2 doctor, Sarah Jarvis. ‘You and I are at the very top of skin cancer risk in later life,’ advises Dr Jarvis , a red-head. ‘We have to watch for moles, freckles, anything unusual.’ ‘When is later life?’ I ask. ‘It’s now!’ she tells me. ...