Alastair Stewart and his wife Sally appeared on BBC Breakfast on Wednesday to discuss the veteran newsreader's vascular dementia diagnosis. The former ITV News presenter, 72, revealed last year that he had been diagnosed with early onset vascular dementia in 2019. Appearing with his wife Sally to share his reality of living with the condition, he said: "My professional life is okay, I still do a bit for GB News, they're very supportive.
" He added: "It's my private life and my life at home that is chaotic, so for example coming to see you guys this morning. She [Sally] had to do my tie, she has to make sure that the braces are okay on the suit and that it all matches, hangs together. “It's more than discombobulating, which is a good word I like to use, it's demeaning for me, it's slightly demeaning for her as well.
She becomes a carer after half a century of marriage!" Talking to Sally about how she is coping, she emotionally admitted: "It's hard work, it's frustrating, it's quite depressing sometimes but we try and find humour in it all. It's not easy, you're not trained to do it, you just have to make it up as you go along!" Speaking about when she first started to worry about Alastair, Sally said: "It was probably about two years around now, he was just doing things strangely at home, leaving lights on, which doesn't sound a big deal but for someone who's obsessed with turning lights off. “He couldn't tell the time on a clock, he couldn't reset the clock.
He was getting.