Latest on TV favourite Jonnie Irwin’s terminal cancer diagnosis
Channel 4 presenter has revealed he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer but his show co-star in 'the jungle' is unaware of news.
TV presenter Jonnie Irwin has revealed he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
The telly favourite revealed in HELLO! magazine on Monday that his lung cancer had spread to his brain.
Irwin presents the BBC’s Escape To The Country as well as Channel 4’s A Place In The Sun.
He has three boys with his wife Jessica, a three-year-old and two-year old twins and up until the weekend had kept his illness private.
JUNGLE
His co-star from A Place In The Sun, Scarlette Douglas, is currently in the jungle on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, and doesn’t know about Jonnie’s diagnosis.
She is thought to have known her friend was unwell not how severely.
One of her friends told The Sun: “She knew he was ill but didn’t know just what stage it was at. There will definitely be a sense of shock and sadness when she hears the news when she gets out.”
DIAGNOSIS
Irwin told HELLO! that although he didn’t know how long he had left he hoped that sharing his diagnosis would inspire people to “make the most of every day”.
He told the magazine that he first noticed something was wrong when his vision went blurry while filming A Place In The Sun in Italy in 2020.
Within a week of flying back from filming, I was being given six months to live.”
“Within a week of flying back from filming, I was being given six months to live,” he said.
“It’s got to the point now where it feels like I’m carrying a dirty secret – it’s become a monkey on my back,” he says. “I hope that by shaking that monkey off and talking to HELLO!, I might inspire people who are living with life-limiting prospects to make the most of every day; to help them see that you can live a positive life, even though you are dying.”
