Theo Burrell, an “Antiques Roadshow” star and most cancers analysis advocate, has died. She was 39.
A member of the family introduced Burrell’s demise on Instagram on Saturday, writing, “It’s with nice unhappiness that I share the information that Theo handed away peacefully surrounded by her household on Wednesday afternoon. Neither she nor her medical crew foresaw this occurring fairly so shortly.
“She was an unimaginable one that fought exhausting for her household, mates and elevating consciousness of this merciless illness,” the submit continued. “She noticed life occasions like her son’s first day in school and her marriage ceremony that a little bit over 4 years in the past we thought she’d by no means see.”
Burrell, born Theodora Helen Burrell on Sept. 1, 1986, was a ceramics and ornamental arts specialist on the BBC’s “Antiques Roadshow,” a actuality collection that options antiques consultants appraising household heirlooms, storage sale gems and extra. Off display, she labored as a specialist and auctioneer at Lyon & Turnbull, the oldest public sale home in Scotland.
“One of many issues I like about antiques is that they’ve survived so a few years, witnessing life altering occasions equivalent to coronations & world wars,” Burrell wrote within the caption of an 1840s-era white marble bust.
In June 2022, Burrell was identified with an incurable, aggressive Grade 4 mind tumor, and was advised she had a 12 months to a 12 months and a half to reside. She subsequently underwent mind surgical procedure, radiotherapy and chemotherapy in an effort to maintain the most cancers at bay. In June 2023, she organized a star-studded public sale to boost cash for the British most cancers analysis nonprofit the Mind Tumour Charity and raised the equal of about $93,500. She additionally grew to become a patron of the charity Mind Tumour Analysis.
“We’re heartbroken that we have now misplaced the exceptional, decided and actually inspiring Theo to this devastating illness,” Dan Knowles, chief government of Mind Tumour Analysis, said on Instagram. “She continually impressed us with how massive her coronary heart was and we’ll proceed on our mission, pushed by every little thing she taught us. Our ideas are along with her household, her mates and with all those that had the privilege of figuring out her.”
Throughout a January 2024 BBC “Morning Live” appearance, Burrell stated that six months earlier than she was identified, she began to get uncommon signs together with complications, nausea, emotions of strain in her head and points along with her imaginative and prescient. After a number of journeys to numerous physicians and a CT scan, medical doctors discovered an about 2-inch-diameter mind tumor in the suitable aspect of her mind.
She spoke candidly about her battle within the media and throughout social platforms, telling BBC, “I actually felt that with a small public profile which I had from the ‘Roadshow’ that if I may do one thing good with that, then I ought to. And I’ve watched different individuals, equivalent to Tom Parker, who sadly misplaced his life to a glioblastoma, actually work so extremely exhausting when he was so ailing to attempt to make a distinction for individuals like me.”
Burrell’s household stated within the assertion saying the antiques fanatic’s demise that the most cancers neighborhood supplied “a lot consolation and power to her in her darkest moments.”
“However most of all it supplied hope and I believe what she would need most of all is for different individuals to seek out hope in her story. Hope that the statistics aren’t gospel and that at some point they’ll be very totally different.”
