Latest Wishes - Dick and Dom make Josh’s day

CBBC’s Dick and Dom partially (only partially!) suspended their japes recently to grant a special wish for one Cornish boy.

Joshua, aged 12 and from Camborne lives with Epilepsy so severe that one of the types of seizures from which he suffers can recur every four seconds. He’s been tuning into his favourite TV show ,‘Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow’, for over five years. The pair so impress Josh that he frequently takes the opportunity to shout ‘bogies’ in public places in their honour!

Josh, accompanied on his big day out by his older brother Robert and parents Sharon and Robert, travelled up to London on Thursday where Make-A-Wish had arranged for them to stay in a hotel, go on a bus tour of London and have a feast at the Hard Rock Café.

The next morning a limousine pulled up to escort Josh and family to the BBC Television Studios, where Dick was there to greet them. After a personal tour of the BBC – including the Blue Peter Garden, eight studios and stars’ dressing rooms – the troupe met up with Dom and they all goofed around with the puppet dog and ate Cornish cake and biscuits which Josh had brought for them.

Josh was then invited to stay in the studio while they rehearsed the day’s programme, Dick and Dom bantering with Josh all the way through.

Josh’s Mum Sharon said: “Meeting Dick and Dom was really emotional for all of us. Josh accepts his illness and never complains, but to see him so happy and excited was quite overwhelming.

“Josh belly laughs at Dick and Dom all the time and their show is the one thing that he loses himself in and is then able to forget his illness – so to meet them and laugh with them has been so fantastic.

“Josh is usually ‘special’ for the wrong reasons but on this day he was special for all the right reasons; it was perfect.”

Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood, aka Dick and Dom, said: “We think Make-A-Wish is a fantastic charity and meeting Josh was a real honour. He was very entertaining – a kindred spirit.”

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