Born in 1983 and raised on a farm in Essex, Claira Hermet has worked for the likes of the BBC, BT Sport,
GRM Daily and SBTV as a television and radio presenter.
When she was nine years old, Claira lost her mother to breast cancer. At the age of 25, her older
sister, Emily, was also diagnosed with breast cancer, an illness she struggled with until passing
away, aged 31, in 2011. When Claira discovered that she had the BRCA1 gene, which gives
carriers an 85 percent chance of developing breast cancer, she underwent a voluntary double
mastectomy and reconstruction in 2015.
“The only thing I wish [me and my late sister had] done differently is that we’d spoken about death,
because we didn’t. My role was always to make her smile, to make her happy
