The Traitors star bravely opens up about life-long ‘struggle’ with cerebral palsy
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The Traitors star Jake Brown has bravely opened up about his life-long ‘struggle’ with cerebral palsy. The 28-year-old project manager is one of the remaining Faithfuls on Claudia Winkleman’s murder mystery gameshow, and has so far managed to escape with few suspicions on him.
He’s been playing a strong game both on the roundtable – where he was one of the first to voice the idea that Linda Rands was, in fact, a Traitor – and during the brutal missions. And during a particularly difficult task on Friday’s episode, Jake revealed he suffers from cerebral palsy.
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Speaking to fellow Faithful Alexander Dragonetti as they heaved stone statues up and down the castle grounds, Jake explained that he found the challenge difficult with gripping the objects, rather than the weight of them. He said: ‘I’ve got cerebral palsy, so it wasn’t the weight, it was the grip. I basically just carried it with one hand.
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. ‘So I was born with cerebral palsy, which affects my right arm and right leg. ‘It’s been a struggle growing up, knowing that I’m not the same as everybody else.
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