As Channel 4‘s longest-serving newsreader, Jon Snow was preparing for a change in pace when he retired in December 2021, at the age of 74.
Having just welcomed a baby boy with wife Precious Lunga – a Zimbabwean epidemiologist – the plan was to travel between Africa and the States, where Precious could continue her work in public health and Jon could look after their son Tafara.
Yet within weeks of Jon’s last broadcast, his health began to deteriorate, and by 2023 he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
It came as a devastating blow to the newsreader, who had planned to use his retirement
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