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JDRF UK on Twitter:

Imagine a Michelin star dinner by Jason Atherton & @ChefTomKerridge, with actors Jeremy Irvine & James Norton and live music by @JackSavoretti! That's a #WorldDiabetesDay #SugarplumDinner auction prize to raise funds to support JDRF, thank you to all.

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Not much time to sign the petition to #RevokeA50

Pass it on!

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More photos of James Norton speaking at the House of Commons in support of The Time Is Now action day, June 26, 2019 (from Twitter)

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https://twitter.com/InTheWordsOf_/status/1119357415328223233

“When you land at Barbados Airport and you bump into James Norton, and we ask Imogen Poots to take the pic 😎. Maybe a future James Bond, with the current one looking in! Such a gentleman, and Imogen is lovely 😊.”

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“Within our little nuclear family of four, it’s completely normal to have type 1 diabetes; my dad is the only one who doesn’t have it,

Despite his family history, the diagnosis still came as a blow.

“It was traumatic, because I’m a terrible hypochondriac anyway,” admits James. “But it was also manageable because I had the best role model in my sister, who was training to be a doctor. I called her so many times, worrying about things, which was strange, because I’d always been the protective older brother, keeping an eye on Jessie at parties.

“Having type 1 was particularly hard for her through her teenage years when she had so many other things to contend with. But then, when it was my turn, she got me through it, too.

“Because my sister had been diagnosed so young, my parents already knew all about management and control, and also the need for that psychological balance between recognising that it’s a serious, life-long condition, but not letting it define us.

“As a family, we’re so relaxed about our diabetes. My mum has had to bring needles to film sets because I sometimes forget.

“We don’t think of ourselves as a ‘diabetic family’. We’re just three type 1s getting on with it.

A couple of weeks ago, his sister Jessie, now 31, had her first baby, a healthy boy named Kit weighing more than 10 lb. “She used Dexcom to monitor her blood glucose. Her HbA1c [average blood glucose over the past three months] was perfect throughout her pregnancy, so she was really able to enjoy it,” says her brother.

What’s made the real difference for James is a new continuous glucose monitor called a Dexcom G6, which looks like a small battery attached to a plaster and sends a constant stream of data to his phone, sounding an alarm if his blood sugar level is beginning to go too high or too low. It is the only monitor so accurate that users don’t need to finger-prick at all.

James wears his CGM on his chest. “But on days when I need to bare my torso, I attach it to one of my buttocks,” he laughs.

James chooses not to use an insulin pump, preferring to give himself injections.

“As an actor, I’m constantly changing costumes. Sometimes I have to do a scene naked, with my top off, or wearing tight clothes. I don’t want to be attached to two pieces of equipment.

“I give myself around 15 insulin injections a day,” he says — this complements his main insulin dose. “I’m happy with that because it suits my lifestyle. Bear in mind it’s a 5mm needle and it takes me all of seven seconds. I can do three during a meal — my Dexcom tells me if I need more insulin before pudding — and no one even notices.

“I know how lucky I am to have gone from painful finger-pricking 20 times a day, to the Libre, to Dexcom. I want to be able to sing from the rooftops how brilliant this technology is. But I’m painfully aware that not everyone can have it on the NHS [National Health System].

“The sooner this is made available to all type 1s from an early age, the more manageable the condition will be,'” he says. “It means people with diabetes can relax and live their lives without the constant burden of feeling different.

At the conference [TAD Talk 2019], he was asked whether he’d thought of taking a different career direction in the light of his diabetes.

“I was proud to answer that I never thought for a moment it would slow me down,” he says.

“The fantastic thing about an event like this is that you meet not only ridiculous luvvies like me, but professional athletes — cyclists, boxers, and triathletes — with type 1, who live ferociously physical lives and are at the top of their game.

James himself is so comfortable with type 1, he now describes it as 'like a mini-superpower’.

“It’s given me extraordinary empathy,“ he says. "And that empathy extends to everyone — epileptics, coeliacs, diabetics — anyone who has something that makes them a little bit different. It’s a lovely, empowering thing.”

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James Norton at the TAD Talk 2019, London, March 30, 2019

Watch Tilly’s video on Instagram: “This weekend I had the absolute pleasure to attend TAD with work. The day was all kinds of incredible. I mean a day filled with inspirational fellow t1s talking about being badass - what’s not to love?! Seeing @jginorton speaking was immeasurably wonderful and I hope this little snippet of his speech brings as much joy to you as it did to me… not to mention the hug I got from him 😍😍😍”

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584

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James Norton photographed by Riccardo Ghilardi in Berlin, Feb. 10, 2019

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James Norton in a short clip from Mr. Jones

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James Norton in Mr Jones

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FOOF Design on Instagram

Here’s the wonderful #JamesNorton ( @jginorton ) wearing his FOOF very proudly at @equityuk 90th Birthday! 💜🤝💜

*Equity is the UK trade union that represents performers and creative practitioners working across the entertainment industry. And being three actors ourselves (that’s our other job!), it’s a union that’s very close to our hearts! 

It was in 1929 that performers first met together to fight for their own protection and the benefit of all those working in the industry. Without those pioneers, Equity would not exist. We 💜 you @equityuk !

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James Norton at the  press conference for  Mr Jones

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Mark Tillie Photo on Instagram:

Movie still: Cheerful Weather For The Wedding, 2012, Director Donald Rice I took this picture onset during the filming of the wedding photo scene. The not-so-cheerful weather was real.

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Behind the scenes of The Climate Coalition video with James Norton

Richard Paris Wilson director / photographer on Facebook

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Filming “Mr.Jones” in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 20, 2018

Our girls from fan-group of James Norton (twitter.com/JamesNortonWeb , vk.com/james_norton_addiction) met him on the set. 

Alina (on the right) writes:

Honestly saying I’m shell-shocked by this day. James Norton in Kharkov – it is absolutely surrealistic! I feel like it was a dream. It was bitterly cold, crowd shot was in their place about half an hour (I recognized one of them – kharkov theatrical actor who played in Theater 19 before, which I like to visit). So then, the black car droved in and James himself came out of it. I should add that nobody in the crowd knew him but it has got through to everybody quickly that he is the Main Actor) 

Then James went in a tent near the shooting location, then he went out with a pack of Sandora juice in his hand ) I overcame shyness and shouted out: “James! I love you! It’s a dream come true that you are here, Welcome to Ukraine, McMafia is great” and other words in this way. Well, it was my first experience in meeting with my favorite actor, so, excuse me) James smiled at me, made some gesture and said “Dyakuyu”, Thanks in Ukrainian. 

Then a second person on photo came to me and asked point-blank is she from that group? It figured out that she was, and together we got up at James’ tent and asked about a picture with him) It happened before the shooting, just in a few minutes before a start, so I was prepared he would ask us go away. But NO! He said something like “a bit later”, went in the tent for a couple of minutes and came back to make photos with us) A woman from a crew (the director maybe?) offered to make a photo all of us together, the result you can see in the head of the post. 

Then we stood for a while behind James (no security, that’s surprising) and he was waiting for his entrance. We even saw the first scene with him playing Garret. James, to be sure, transforms in a second, becoming a totally different person than a minute before. 

There is a thought that always gets me – which of his characters James is more look like? Now I believe he is similar to Alex from McMafia. Maybe it’s because of a color of his hair. And – another pretty moment – I finally saw his beautiful sad smile in a real life, which I watched in War and Peace, and Grantchester and McMafia. So ten, “and we are happy!” as it’s saying by participants in one of the old-fashion reality show during the final.

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James Norton on the red carpet of the Berlin Film Festival, February 10, 2019

Chantal Melomaniac Photo on Instagram

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James Norton on the set of Mr. Jones Tomasz Naumiuk on Instagram