I do a bit of broadcasting for my work. Yesterday I received an email from a viewer, who has occasionally contacted me in the past, when he has always been perfectly polite. I don’t know him, never met him, he just sends the odd email, always about programmes.
In his email he said that judging from ‘my appearance’ on a programme it had led him to wonder whether I had cancer and he advised me to go for a check up. He is not a doctor. There was no obvious animosity in the tone of the email but obviously this was very upsetting. I was utterly shocked to receive something like that totally out of the blue. I don’t look unhealthy, I have not had cancer in the past and I have had recent breast and cervix checks. But even if I did look ill, why on earth would someone send this? AIBU to think it must be sheer malice? I have blocked him. Just trying to make sense of it.