A BBC Breakfast guest broke down in tears during a fundraising challenge to combat the disease that took his mother's life. Jordan Adams, 31, and his brother Cian are running 33 marathons in 33 days to raise money for frontotemporal dementia (FTD) research.
Emotional Moment on the Route
Jordan paused along the marathon route to thank supporters, visibly emotional. 'This isn't just about my family,' he said, crying. 'It's so much bigger.' The brothers, known as the FTD Brothers, lost their mother Geraldine to FTD in 2016 when she was 52. After genetic testing, both learned they carry the gene; Jordan has a 99.9% chance of developing the disease.
Facing an Inevitable Future
'It's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when,' Jordan had previously told the programme. He quit his job two years ago to focus on fundraising. 'You have conversations with your peers who are the same age as you. You're trying to tell them that I'm going to get dementia in the next 10 to 15 years, and they don't believe you,' he said.
The support has given him hope. 'You've given other families hope, so, from the bottom of my heart, from all of my whole family, thank you so much,' he added. 'This is just the start of what we hope is a legacy that can kind of outlive our time on Earth before FTD gets us in the next 10 to 15 years.'
£1 Million Goal
The brothers aim to raise £1 million in honour of their mother. 'We're on a mission because we have a clock kind of ticking against us, and we want to make as much of a difference in the next 10, 15 years that we have and the time that we have left,' Jordan explained during a previous appearance on BBC Breakfast.
BBC Breakfast airs on BBC One from 6am.
