'I wasn’t shocked by my Alastair’s dementia diagnosis'

Alastair, 71, left his GB News viewers shattered when he dropped the bombshell about his early-onset vascular dementia diagnosis a week ago.

The presenter, once known to millions as the face of ITN, said he had been feeling “discombobulated” and sought his GP’s advice after a series of mini-strokes.

Together... Alastair and his wife Sally (Image: Getty)She said: “He was forgetting things.

“So I made that decision that he shouldn’t drive and he accepted that very easily, which surprised me.

Alistair was diagnosed with dementia last week (Image: Getty)Asked how it could affect the family, Sally continued: “I really worry about the impact on the children and, although they’re spread over quite a big age gap, I do worry about the implications for them.

Sally said it was a relief that Alastair has stepped down from live broadcasting because she feared his condition could mean that “something might go wrong”.