James Norton is the latest star to take on CBeebies Bedtime Story role as the Happy Valley star aims to teach children about diabetes through reading By Lily Jobson For Mailonline Published: 10:28, 10 June 2024 | Updated: 10:35, 10 June 2024 e-mail View comments James Norton is the latest star to take on CBeebies Bedtime Story role as he hopes to teach children about diabetes through reading. The Happy Valley star, 38, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes aged 22, is aiming to help young children understand how diabetes and how it can be managed. CBeebies Bedtime Story has seen a host of Hollywood stars to settle down and read a children's book.
James, who will appear on screens on Friday, will read Dr Rose Stewart's How to Manage a Mammoth to help families explore what it's like living with the condition. One way the actor is trying to teach children how to accept and manage diabetes is by cuddling a teddy bear with a continuous glucose monitor on it. James Norton, 38, is the latest star to take on CBeebies Bedtime Story role as he hopes to teach children about diabetes through reading The Happy Valley star, who was diagnosed with type one diabetes aged 22, is aiming to help young children understand how diabetes and how it can be managed In the bedtime story, 8-year-old Jake is learning to live with his diabetes which he imagines is a mammoth called Mel.
Jake and his Mum join forces with their friends to work out how to shrink Mel the diabetes mammoth to a manageable size.
