Outnumbered fans should be prepared for heartbreak on Boxing Day
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*Warning: This contains a spoiler for the Outnumbered Christmas special. The Outnumbered Christmas special 2024 is tackling a health diagnosis that affects millions across the country in a bid to make viewers dealing with the same disease ‘less alone.’.
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The Boxing Day episode reunites BBC viewers with the Brockman family, helmed by parents Pete (Hugh Dennis) and Sue (Claire Skinner), after eight years. It follows Pete and Sue as they prepare a festive celebration for their three children Jake (Tyger Drew-Honey), Ben (Daniel Roche) and Karen (Ramona Marquez), now all young adults who have flown the nest.
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But along with the Brockman’s signature wry humour, a new adorable family member, an unwanted houseguest and chaotic family fun, Pete also reveals he has been diagnosed with treatable prostate cancer. At a preview screening and Q&A for Outnumbered at The Charlotte Street Hotel in London, Metro and other press heard from writers Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin they wanted to end the stigma around the word cancer.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. They also wanted to give an ‘honest and funny’ depiction of telling loved ones about a cancer diagnosis in the hope that viewers in the same position feel ‘reassured and comforted.’.
Guy explained: ‘People often remember Outnumbered for the delightful children, but it always dealt with with quite serious things: dementia, death, homophobia. We dealt with that through how parents explain it to their children and this is the same except that the children are considerably larger.
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