Emmerdale’s Laura Norton and Mark Jordon praise ‘incredible’ EastEnders storyline

Emmerdale stars Laura Norton and Mark Jordon are connected a ngo to raise consciousness of Usher Syndrome, and person praised an EastEnders storyline which helped to bash conscionable that.

The actors stopped to chat with Metro.co.uk at their 2nd annual Cure Usher Ball – an lawsuit that has antecedently had immense occurrence successful raising consciousness and funds for the charity Cure Usher, a origin that is precise adjacent to their hearts.

In 2023, Mark and Laura revealed that their 2 children, Jesse and Ronnie, had been diagnosed with Usher Syndrome, which is simply a rare, incurable familial information that causes nonaccomplishment of proceeding and imaginativeness and, successful immoderate cases, affects balance.

Earlier this year, an EastEnders storyline saw Britney Wainwright (Lola Campbell) beryllium diagnosed with Usher Syndrome aft starting to suffer her vision.

The storyline helped to bring Usher Syndrome into the headlines and amended viewers connected the information – thing that was precise important to Laura and Mark.

‘It meant the world,’ Laura told us, ‘Nobody does it similar a soap.

‘It was viewed by millions of radical each nighttime for that play of time. People were talking astir Usher Syndrome. It was incredible.’

‘It’s the information that it was crossed the spreads the adjacent day,’ Mark added, ‘Everybody wanted to explicate what Usher was, to warrant what the communicative was, and that helped america tremendously due to the fact that that’s what we’re after. We’re aft raising awareness.

‘That was the commencement of galore things to come,’ helium promised.

Laura and Mark were joined by a full big of their family, friends and Emmerdale co-stars astatine this year’s Cure Usher Ball, and the enactment meant a batch to them both.

Also successful attendance were Cure Usher laminitis Jo Milne and seat Steve White, who were arsenic arsenic thrilled astir the BBC soap bringing consciousness to Usher Syndrome.

‘That’s what it is, the deficiency of awareness,’ Jo told us. ‘Everybody that you talk to astir Usher Syndrome, they mostly person not heard of the condition. And it’s not astir putting blasted connected anybody, it’s conscionable that cipher mostly knows what it is. And yet there’s 11,000 radical successful the UK surviving with the condition.

‘So, thing similar this is injecting that precocious level of consciousness which is evidently going to amended lives. It’s going to marque a difference.

‘That’s 1 of the astir frustrating things astir the condition. Sometimes you’ll conscionable somebody, possibly successful the healthcare strategy for example, and find that they haven’t heard of the condition, which shows that much needs to beryllium done astir it.’

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