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Meet The Presenter Telling TV’s Gatekeepers To Get With The Program On Tourette’s
Adrian Smith, A TV presenter with Tourette's, has a message for commissioners and execs to take people with the syndrome seriously.
His three-seasons-long TV series The Three Drinkers, which he presents with friends and drink experts Colin Hampden-White and Helena Nicklin, was funded with money from tourism boards and other brands, and it streams on Prime Video. The push for greater diversity in the TV industry, which Smith will be harnessing at MIPCOM, has not extended to Tourette’s in the same vein as it has to people with physical disabilities or who are neurodivergent, he added, citing a number of stars who have been candid about ADHD diagnoses of late such as Greta Gerwig. He said he was “laughed at” when he tried to take the conventional route of becoming a presenter and was told to “drop his expectations,” but he instead landed a placement at a U.S. university and “met people who became my adopted family,” giving him the confidence to make a go of it with the likes of The Three Drinkers.
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