Emmerdale actor Jeff Hordley has a special adaption to his home following a chronic diagnosis. The star, who plays Cain Dingle on the soap, lives with Crohn’s disease and modified his diet to treat the illness after a nutritionist recommended he follow a strict detox and cut alcohol, sugar, meat, wheat and dairy from his diet.
To help cope with the new lifestyle, Jeff and his wife and co-star, Zoe Henry, have installed an allotment in their rural retreat and cook everything from scratch. Previously speaking about Jeff’s condition Loose Women, Zoe said that it “changed [their] lives.”
Jeff himself said that he worried that the diagnosis would stop him from pursuing an acting career. As an ambassador for Crohn’s and Colitis UK, Jeff said: “You are not alone if you are suffering from Crohn’s or Colitis… although sometimes you might feel as if you are.
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“There are at least 300,000 people with IBD in the UK – I’m one of them.” Originally the actor mistook symptoms for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), but when he became too tired to attend lectures at university, he knew something more serious was the cause.
“I was scared it would stop my acting career from taking off,” Jeff continued. “Even though I tried to avoid foods that upset my digestive system, such as coffee and Chinese takeaways, I was still sick and tired and I kept losing weight.”
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