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GOOD Morning Britain anchor Susanna Reid was missing from today’s show with Charlotte Hawkins taking the reigns.
Ed Balls partnered Charlotte behind the desk while Sean Fletcher and entertainment editor Richard Arnold were also on hand to talk through the day’s big subjects including the Super Bowl.
Ed Balls and Charlotte Hawkins presented today’s GMB[/caption]
Susanna Reid is off for half-term week[/caption]
Long-term viewers will have noticed the timing of Susanna absence coincides with the February half-term holidays.
Though her sons are no longer of school age, Susanna sticks to the education calendar for her own holidays.
She’ll be absent all week with other show regulars, such as Charlotte and Kate Garraway providing expert cover.
Susanna’s absence comes days after she revealed her hidden health battle.
The broadcaster empathised with guest Jamie Laing, who was on the show to talk about tinnitus, which she herself lives with.
Tinnitus is a medical term to describe the perception of noise either in one ear, both ears or in the head, when there is no corresponding external sound.
During the chat the GMB studio played out the sound of what people with the condition can hear.
Susanna then confessed that she battles with it herself.
She said: “It’s really interesting, the ringing sound we ran just now, that’s triggered it now, in my head.”
Susanna added: “Because you have to make a conscious effort to tune it out so actually reminding myself of it.
“But it’s fine I just think I’m not going to worry about it – I’m just going to tune it out again.”
The condition is often described as a “ringing in the ears” but the sound heard can vary from person to person.
Susanna was diagnosed with tinnitus after she gave birth to her son Finn back in 2004.
The TV host revealed her struggles in an interview back in 2013.
When asked what her “treasured” item is, she said: “Silence. I’ve had tinnitus since Finn’s birth, which probably resulted from a difficult labour.
“When I first started hearing it, which was probably about ten years ago, I became quite distressed that I would never hear silence again.”
Susanna opened up on her tinnitus battle last week[/caption]
What are the two types of Tinnitus?
Subjective tinnitus is the most common type.
This is where the sounds are only heard by the person who has tinnitus and is usually linked to problems affecting the hearing pathway.
Objective tinnitus is the second type and is much rarer.
This kind of tinnitus sound can be heard by other people too, for example, a doctor listening through a stethoscope placed by your ear.
Objective tinnitus is caused by a physical problem that produces sound – such as the narrowing of blood vessels in your ear
