Christine Gill receives surprise video messages from Westlife stars amid surgery recovery

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The 'world's number one Westlife fan' Christine Gill receives messages from members of Westlife following a social media campaign by her friend Nicola McLaughlin. Christine underwent surgery in October and featured on the show 'Brain Doctors' to raise awareness of neurofibromatosis (NF), the relatively little known genetic condition she has lived with from girlhood. Video from The Sequin Cinderella Facebook.

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00:00Hello Christine. This is a message for our number one fan Miss Christine Gale. I have a very exciting

00:07update after my video about my friend Christine. I have just pulled into Leicester County Hospital

00:13to surprise Christine with not one but two videos from the Westlife Boys. So thanks to the power of

00:20social media, a thank you in particular to Aoife McBride from Buncranagh who used her magic and

00:26got these videos. She'll post the boys video at the end. I am so excited.

00:46I have a surprise for you.

00:52What do you think?

00:57What do you think? What has Nicola been trying to do for you?

01:06Do you want to see what I got? Yeah.

01:09Hello Christine. It's Shane here. How are you? I saw your message today from your very good friend

01:15Nicola online. It got sent to me by a friend of mine, Shane Evan. So Shane, thanks for sending it

01:21on. I wouldn't have seen it. Christine, honestly your story is incredible. I know you've been

01:27through a lot and I know you've just been through a massive surgery as well. So I just want to say

01:33look, you're so brave. You're so amazing. Thank you so much for being such a big Westlife fan,

01:38the biggest Westlife fan in the world probably. I know you put your surgeon through seven hours

01:44of Westlife as well for every surgery. So that's great. I'd love to sometime maybe meet you in

01:50Belfast if we're at a concert. It's not going to happen quite yet but we will be back in Belfast

01:56someday and I'd love you to come up to the show, bring your friends if you want and you can come

02:01and see Westlife live and backstage because I'm sure they'd love to meet you too. So Christine,

02:07stay strong, stay positive and keep playing those Westlife songs.

02:14Okay, this is a message for our number one fan, Miss Christine Gill. Christine,

02:25I've come across your story to a good friend of mine, Shane Gibbon from Dunigal who reached out

02:30to me to share it with me and shown tremendous courage, tremendous bravery and it's truly

02:36inspiring. So can I take this opportunity for anybody and everybody who sees this to say well

02:43done you, well done Christine. The next time we tour, which isn't too far away, we're not,

02:47we can't announce it just yet Christine, we're not going to say anything just yet but when we do,

02:51okay, you're more than welcome to come down and meet us in person and say hello to us, okay? So

02:57that's my advice to you, all right? I can't share what it is just yet but trust me it's not too far

03:03away. All right Christine, keep fighting, keep showing that strength, you are a warrior and

03:08thank you again and well done you. I'll tell you something, I think a big thank you to Shane

03:16Gibbon, Christine. Yeah, thank you Shane Gibbon. Hello Christine, Shane here, how are you? I saw

03:24your message today from your very good friend Nicola online. It got sent to me by a friend of

03:30mine, Shane Gibbon. So Shane, thanks for sending it on, I wouldn't have seen it. Christine,

03:36honestly your story is incredible. I know you've been through a lot and I know you've just been

03:42through a massive surgery as well so I just want to say look, you're so brave, you're so amazing,

03:48thank you so much for being such a big Westlife fan, the biggest Westlife fan in the world

03:52probably and I know you put your surgeon through seven hours of Westlife as well for your big

03:59surgery so that's great. You've converted another Westlife fan and he's a heavy metal fan as well

04:04so I'm sure when you're looking like that might be his favourite. But Christine, honestly it's

04:10incredible to hear your story, you're so brave and I really want to say a big hello from me

04:16and all the Westlife boys. It's so cool to have such an amazing fan and I'd love to sometime maybe

04:24meet you in Belfast if we're at a concert. It's not going to be probably for a while yet but we

04:29will be back in Belfast someday and I'd love you to come up to the show and bring your friends if

04:33you want and you can come and see Westlife live and meet all the boys backstage because I'm sure

04:39they'd love to meet you too. So Christine, stay strong, stay positive and keep playing those

04:46Westlife songs. Take care. Hey this is a message for our number one fan Miss Christine Gill. Christine,

04:56I've come across your story to a good friend of mine, Shea Given from Donegal who reached out to

05:02me to share it with me and I know some people have been trying to get in touch at Westlife so

05:07I apologise that you know we were, I don't know, uncontactable or you didn't get to us

05:12but Mr Shea Given has done the job. So I want to leave you this message for many many reasons. One,

05:20because when I saw your story it's truly inspiring. You are one amazing woman and with everything you

05:27have been through you just seem to keep getting up and getting on with it and showing tremendous

05:32courage, tremendous bravery and it's truly inspiring. So can I take this opportunity

05:39for anybody and everybody who sees this to say well done you, well done Christine, you are amazing.

05:45Also I guess I want to say thank you for all the support at Westlife that you've shown us through

05:49the years and I want to take this opportunity okay to tell you that the next time we tour,

05:54which isn't too far away, we're not, we can't announce it just yet Christine, we're not going

05:58to say anything just yet but when we do okay, you're more than welcome to come down and meet us

06:03in person and say a big hello to us okay. So that's my promise to you alright. I can't share

06:09what it just is just yet but trust me it's not too far away. Alright Christine, keep fighting, keep

06:14showing that strength, you are a warrior and thank you again and well done you. Bye-bye.

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