00:00Now, Alison, are you there?
00:02Hello, yes, I'm here.
00:03Merry Christmas, Alison.
00:05Now, we've got Vanessa Feltz here for you.
00:06Alison, what would you like to ask Vanessa?
00:10How to deal with a family Christmas
00:12where we all need to eat gluten-free
00:13for one person who's got celiac disease.
00:16I mean, this is...
00:17I mean, Alison, I'm 100% on your side on this.
00:20It's absolutely ridiculous.
00:21So, Alison's mother-in-law has got them coming for Christmas,
00:24and because one person has to be gluten-free,
00:27she's insisting that they're all gluten-free
00:30including Alison's 15-year-old, who's a bit of a fussy eater.
00:33And when Alison said, can we bring our own food then?
00:36You know, just can he bring food in a snack box?
00:37She said no.
00:38So she's treating celiac disease
00:41as if it's a kind of fatal, potentially fatal peanut allergy
00:45and that they can't have anything with gluten in the house,
00:48which is completely unreasonable.
00:49That is not reasonable, Alison, at all.
00:52The thing is, though, if you say to her,
00:54look, you know, he can have gluten-free,
00:57we don't have to, it's not catching.
00:59Here we go.
00:59Here we go.
00:59Here we go.
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