What to chuck and what to cherish as time goes by Dame Esther is a tireless campaigner for older people, and has been particularly vocal on the subject of loneliness. It goes, ‘loneliness is having plenty of people to do something with, but nobody to do nothing with. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Elizabeth hit the headlines at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival when photos of her dancing with fellow carnival goers in the pouring rain went viral. It’s because there isn’t enough appropriate housing for them so that they can go home from hospital and stay safe. In her regular contributions to political and news programmes, including The One Show, she especially advocates protecting vulnerable people and growing old ungracefully.

Rantzen, 82, first announced her diagnosis in January, before revealing it had progressed to stage four in May this year. I was then out of work for six months and that was really important, because once that has happened to you, you never want it to happen again. You are never too old to get fit So much of fitness is in the mind; people get older and are told they can’t do things, so they decide they can’t.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.Multi-award-winning broadcaster, founder of Childline and The Silver Line, campaigner, mother, grandmother and joyous trailblazer of our times, Dame Esther Rantzen dazzles in the glory of getting older and ever bolder.