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TV Star's Stammer Awareness Triumph
21 Jan
Summary
- A contestant on The Traitors has sparked positive conversations about stammering.
- Her presence on the show has been described as inspiring and normalizing.
- Representation on TV for stammering is often rare and historically comedic.

A contestant on the latest series of the hit TV show The Traitors has been commended for her role in raising awareness about stammering. Jessie Stride, 28, introduced herself in the initial episode, and her participation has since been lauded.
Bhupinder Purewal, founder of the Coventry Stammerers support group, found Stride's presence on the BBC One program incredibly inspiring. Purewal emphasized that seeing such representation helps to normalize stammering. She noted that growing up, she rarely saw stammering depicted on television, and when it was, it was often used for comedic effect.

