 Veteran broadcaster Alastair Stewart has revealed that he has been diagnosed with dementia. The former ITV newsreader, 71, shared that this setback in his health was why he chose to retire earlier this year. Stewart is battling early onset vascular dementia, which he shared in an interview on Sunday morning with Camilla Tominey. He explained that he had decided to visit his GP about six to nine months ago after he began to feel 'a bit discombobulated'. The presenter retired from regular broadcasting on GB News earlier this year after nearly five decades on air. He hosted his final episode of Alastair Stewart And Friends, a discussion programme on GB News, in March. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Stewart left ITV in 2020, where he had presented a range of news and current affairs programmes including the evening news, lunchtime news and News At Ten, after more than 35 years with the broadcaster. He told GB News programme The Camilla Tominey Show on Sunday: 'I mean, the headline story, and it is relatively dramatic, I suppose, is that about six, nine months ago, I began to feel one of my favourite words, a bit discombobulated. 'I wasn't becoming forgetful but things like doing your shoelaces properly – that's how I wear these lovely moccasins now – making sure your tie was straight, remembering that the call time for your programme is four o'clock and not five o'clock, not turning up early or late, and stuff like that. The legendary journalist retired from regular broadcasting in March, following a 50-year career (Picture: Getty) 'I then decided at my ripe old age of late 50s, early 60s, that I might have something wrong.' He added that he went to see his GP and was sent for a scan which revealed he had had a serious of 'minor strokes that are called infarct strokes', and led to a){kind=link}
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Veteran broadcaster Alastair Stewart has revealed that he has been diagnosed with dementia.
The former ITV newsreader, 71, said that this setback in his health was why he had chosen to retire from regular broadcasting back in March.
Stewart is battling early onset vascular dementia, which he shared in an interview on Sunday morning with Camilla Tominey.
He explained that he had decided to visit his GP about six to nine months ago after he began to feel ‘a bit discombobulated’.