{"id":291153,"date":"2023-09-14T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usasportsradar.com\/?p=291153"},"modified":"2023-09-14T13:35:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T13:35:17","slug":"f1-presenter-reveals-fears-bbc-wont-want-her-back-after-a-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usasportsradar.com\/racing\/f1\/f1-presenter-reveals-fears-bbc-wont-want-her-back-after-a-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 presenter reveals fears BBC won&apos;t want her back after a stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>BBC Formula One presenter Jennie Gow, 46, reveals she fears Beeb won&#8217;t &#8216;want me back&#8217; after she suffered a stroke brought on by a cough, as she struggles with fatigue nine months on<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gow worked for the BBC during last month&#8217;s Dutch Grand Prix in\u00a0Zandvoort\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The BBC presenter admitted she was &#8216;wiped out for 10 days&#8217; following the race<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Gow revealed concerns fatigue may prevent her from returning to work full-time\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Formula One presenter Jennie Gow has revealed fears the BBC will not want her back as she struggles with the\u00a0after-effects of a stroke last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gow,\u00a046, temporarily lost the ability to speak after suffering a stroke in December 2022, which was brought on by a cough from a viral infection.<\/p>\n<p>She returned to the\u00a0F1 paddock in July, conducting an interview with Lewis Hamilton for\u00a0BBC Radio 5 Live at the British Grand Prix at\u00a0Silverstone.<\/p>\n<p>Gow, assisted by her husband\u00a0Jamie Coley, worked the full race weekend during the Dutch Grand Prix at\u00a0Zandvoort in August.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Telegraph, Gow revealed she had been &#8216;wiped out for the next 10 days&#8217; due to fatigue after working at the race.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/14\/13\/75429911-12518143-image-a-26_1694695753052.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jennie Gow revealed her fears the BBC may not want her back due to after effects of her stroke<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/14\/13\/75429905-12518143-image-a-27_1694695757632.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The F1 presenter admits she is struggling with fatigue nine months on from suffering a stroke<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/14\/13\/74767115-12518143-Jennie_looks_positive_by_the_track_while_working_at_the_Dutch_Gr-a-28_1694695800731.jpg\" height=\"576\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gow revealed she had been &#8216;wiped out for 10 days&#8217; after working at the Dutch Grand Prix<\/p>\n<p>She admitted to having concerns over whether fatigue will allow her to return full-time, acknowledging fears that the BBC may not want to bring her back to her pitlane reporter role.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019d love to go back at the start of next season but I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s realistic,&#8217; Gow said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s a question mark. I think we thought after Zandvoort we\u2019d know for sure whether I could or we couldn\u2019t. But actually until the fatigue goes, I can\u2019t do a race weekend on my own.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Then there are other questions? Will the BBC want me back? I\u2019m freelance. I don\u2019t have a contract with anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Listening to someone else do [your job] is hard even if all my colleagues have all been amazing, going out of their way to be kind and stressing they are keeping the seat warm for me.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Until the stroke hit, Gow had been a permanent fixture in Formula One coverage since 2012, covering the sport on BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, she covered the BBC&#8217;s MotoGP coverage after joining the broadcasting company in 1999. Gow is also a commentator on the racing series Extreme E.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster has also regularly appeared on the Netflix series Drive to Survive.<\/p>\n<p>Gow&#8217;s husband Jamie\u00a0has previously opened up about the moment he found Jennie on the floor as she suffered a stroke, shortly before Christmas last year.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling it as &#8216;the worst moment of my life&#8217;, he said he heard\u00a0a loud noise downstairs before realising Jennie had collapsed, as their\u00a0six-year-old daughter Isabelle rushed to get the phone so her father could call an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/14\/13\/74765109-12518143-BBC_Formula_One_presenter_Jennie_Gow_has_returned_to_work_at_the-a-29_1694695932320.jpg\" height=\"772\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gow&#8217;s husband\u00a0Jamie Coley had assisted her during the\u00a0Dutch Grand Prix in August<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/14\/13\/71315069-12518143-Jennie_s_husband_described_finding_her_on_the_bathroom_floor_of_-a-30_1694696138814.jpg\" height=\"638\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gow&#8217;s husband Jamie said finding her on the bathroom floor was &#8216;the worst moment of my life&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She was treated swiftly at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey and St George&#8217;s Hospital in Tooting, London.<\/p>\n<p>The presenter thought her speech development would potentially take months to recover, but after a nurse advised her to try to get angry and shout, Gow began speaking again.<\/p>\n<p>Gow has\u00a0revealed she&#8217;s developed dyslexia from the medical episode, among other side effects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This includes nerve damage in her right hand, meaning she is unreceptive to heat, posing a serious risk of burn, while the right side of her face still has a slight droop.<\/p>\n<p>Gow had broken down in tears as she listened to her husband describe her how finding her after the stroke was &#8216;the worst moment&#8217; of his life.<\/p>\n<p>In the BBC film, Jamie said: &#8216;I was trying to call your name and get you to speak to me and I was just getting nothing back from you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She asked him: &#8216;Were you feeling scared?&#8217;, to which he replied: &#8216;It was the worst moment of my life&#8217; before detailing how the couple&#8217;s six-year-old daughter Isabelle helped him get Gow comfortable and passed her father his phone to call an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Gow also meets Dr Thomas Pain, a consultant specialising in strokes at Frimley Park Hospital, who explained that a tear in a blood vessel in her neck &#8211; caused by vigorous coughing &#8211; had resulted in a clot travelling up to her brain, causing a bleed on the left side of it.<\/p>\n<p>The Formula One presenter is raising money with her daughter for the charity Different Strokes, which supports younger survivors with the after effects of a stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/formulaone\/article-12518143\/BBC-Formula-One-Jennie-Gow-stroke-fatigue.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Formula One presenter Jennie Gow, 46, reveals she fears Beeb won&#8217;t &#8216;want me back&#8217; 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