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Privacy NoticeBBC’s Countryfile star Joe Crowley has become a fan favourite on the show, but away from the camera, the nature and outdoors expert has been dealing with a devastating loss he endured while he was a teenager for his whole life The 42-year-old, who joined the popular BBC programme as a presenter in 2014, has spoken candidly about how his grief later impacted what should have been the “happiest day” of his life. Norwich-born Joe, who is now a well-known face to viewers of Countryfile, sadly lost his father to blood cancer when he was just 15 years old. The traumatic loss has had a huge impact on Joe over the years and so much so that he even became an ambassador for the Anthony Nolan Foundation, an organisation that helps unite stem cell donors with blood cancer patients who need stem cell transplants.
Countryfile’s Joe Crowley has spoken candidly about the devastation of losing his dad to blood cancer when he was just a teen and admitted how it’s impacted him later in life too
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Back in 2020, Joe opened up about his grief on the BBC’s Anthony Nolan Storytellers, sharing: “When you lose someone you love from blood cancer it is just devastating, and it will never be the same again, but we have learned to cope, and maybe we are stronger for it.” Joe joined the Anthony Nolan register in 2011 and shared his reason for supporting Anthony Nolan, after losing his father to multiple myeloma. In an interview for Anthony Nolan in 2017, Crowley said: “Blood cancer has touched my family as it has many others across the UK so I fully appreciate the vital work.
Joe joined the Anthony Nolan register in 2011 and shared his reason for supporting Anthony Nolan, after losing his father to multiple myeloma
Joe added: “My dad sadly died from blood cancer when I was a teenager, but it was through working on a piece for the One Show that I really discovered what Anthony Nolan do. “I met a young girl, who was probably about three who was about to meet her stem cell donor. I was there for this incredible meeting. It’s just a no brainer to think we are potentially the cure for someone with blood cancer.” After losing his father to blood cancer as a a teen, Joe will know too well that even the most joyous of new occasions can be clouded with sadness and grief.
Joe had an especially hard time on the day his son Alfie was born because he couldn’t stop thinking about his father, who was sadly gone, and how he would have loved to have met his newborn
Joe had an especially hard time on the day his son Alfie was born because he couldn’t stop thinking about his father, who was sadly gone, and how he would have loved to have met his newborn He admitted: “Becoming a parent for the first time is the happiest day of your life, but with all of the happy days, they are also the saddest. You are missing that person in this case, my father, Alfie’s grandfather who would have loved Alfie.” Besides hosting Countryfile, Joe also works as an environmental journalist, conducting investigations into river pollution on Panorama. Countryfile airs on Sundays on BBC One. Story SavedYou can find this story in  My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnBBC
