TV presenter reveals hopes for his daughter's future after detailing his family's bullying nightmare

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By Jimmy Briggs For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 01:54 BST, 3 September 2024 | Updated: 02:27 BST, 3 September 2024

Television presenter Barry Du Bois has revealed his proud hopes for his 12-year-old daughter Arabella's future, weeks after going public about her bullying agony.

The Living Room star, 64, told this week's New Idea magazine he hopes to live long enough to attend his daughter's wedding if she ever gets married.

'I see myself walking my daughter down the aisle. I'm hell-bent on banking as many memories as we can before I go,' Barry began.

The beloved personality added that he ensures to treasure every moment with his family following his heartbreaking blood cancer multiple myeloma diagnosis in 2017.

Barry revealed he had recently treated his wife Leonie and their twins, Arabella and Bennet, to a luxury voyage across the Mediterranean Sea in order to make some amazing memories.

'You live a fuller life if you treat it as if you don't have very long. I don't take any of it for granted,' he continued.

Last month, Barry shared a heartbreaking post to social media, in which he revealed the helplessness he felt as a parent struggling to help his bullied child.

He shared the gut-wrenching post to Instagram, where he described how his 12-year-old daughter Arabella was being picked on at school.

TV presenter Barry Du Bois has revealed his proud hopes for his 12-year-old daughter Arabella's future, weeks after going public about her bullying agony. Both pictured

'I just watched my little girl walk out the gate of our home, a place where I know she is safe and feels a sense of security and belonging,' Barry began.

'She is heading to a place that doesn't offer that same security, her school. As a parent, I'm supposed to protect and guide her through difficult times, but this morning, I am lost. 

'Yesterday, Arabella came home from school claiming she was sick. This isn't the first time it has happened. She wasn't actually sick but is instead being bullied again.' 

Barry then made the painful admission he didn't know how to help her and asked his followers for some advice.

The Living Room star, 64, told this week's New Idea magazine he hopes to live long enough to attend his daughter's wedding if she ever gets married. Pictured with children Arabella and Bennet

'What do you say to a child when you've already said, "Don't let them upset you. Just keep being kind. You are not the horrible things they say".'

'She said, "I don't want to be special; I just want to be liked",' Barry added, admitting he felt 'weak, angry, confused and a little fearful'.  

The veteran presenter star shares his twins Bennett and Arabella with wife Leonie, who he married in 1999.

The veteran presenter star shares his twins Bennett and Arabella with wife Leonie, who he married in 1999. All pictured

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