TV presenter Bill Turnbull reveals he’s struggling from incurable most cancers

Dilapidated BBC Breakfast star Bill Turnbull has printed he’s fighting prostate and bone most cancers which is incurable.

And the radio DJ informed how he became left in a tearful daze when his doctor broke the frightful news he had the disease.

The sixty two-twelve months-primitive printed his most cancers torment in a present to lend a hand pretty about a men to fetch their prostates checked after admitting he had no longer visited his GP for 4 years sooner than having the take a look at that confirmed his diagnosis.

He’s having chemotherapy in a present to put an eye on the disease and defend him as valuable time as that that it is possible you’ll presumably well presumably imagine to expend alongside with his companion Sarah and their three children.

Talking of the 2nd his doctor dropped the bombshell diagnosis, Bill said he broke down in tears.

He added: “Those first few days had been doubtlessly the worst days of my lifestyles.

“Injurious 2nd. That first 2nd is a staunch shell shock. That you just may perhaps perhaps presumably be ready to’t use into consideration the staunch phrases, you beautiful use into consideration the hammer blow.

“The worst thing is, you lift it through the day and then you definately depart to bed at night and wake up in the morning and it involves you again. I if reality be told relish bought most cancers. I’ve still bought most cancers. It wasn’t a defective dream. And that takes a form of dealing with.

“The contract I thought I had with lifestyles has been shortened pretty a bit.”

Traditional FM host Bill became diagnosed with prostate most cancers in November. Since then he has had keyhole kidney ­operations, hormone injections and chemo periods.

However the disease had already spread to his leg bones, hips, pelvis and ribs.

His diagnosis came after long-duration of time aches and difficulty which he had put all the model down to “primitive age” had been no longer being ­alleviated with pills.

Urging others to fetch tested, he said: “Maybe if I’d bought it earlier and stopped it on the prostate, I’d be in the next dispute.”

Bill said he became informed patients with bone most cancers relish a median lifestyles ­expectancy of about 10 years, up to 14 with chemotherapy.

And he printed his advisor’s ambition is to put him alive for every other 18 years.

Talking of that time span, emotional Bill informed Radio Times: “I wouldn’t relish any complaints.

« I don’t need my lifestyles to be outlined by the illness. I’d adore to search round no longer decrease than one grandchild and there’s still time for that to happen.

“My lifestyles, as I knew it, is up to now tense. You’ve BC, Sooner than Cancer, even as you had a frequent lifestyles, and then there’s After Cancer. I know I’m no longer going to fetch cured and I’m life like about long-duration of time possibilities, nevertheless they’re no longer defective.

“Extra importantly, I if reality be told conclude deem I’ve had a sexy lifestyles.”

In September 2015, Bill, who fronted BBC ­Breakfast for 15 years and co-hosted with Susanna Reid, informed the Replicate he became quitting the expose to expend extra time alongside with his family and his bees. He left in 2016. Bill has been married to Sarah since 1988 and has sons Henry, 29, Will, 28 and 26-twelve months-primitive daughter Vegetation.

Bill said: “It saddens me that I’m no longer going to be round as valuable as I thought with my companion and family. I realise if things growth as they conclude on average, I can’t thought past 12 years.”

He became diagnosed whereas recording The Mountainous Wide name Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer on Channel 4. Bill, who danced on Strictly with companion Karen Hardy, added: “After I became making my cupcakes, I had the disease and didn’t understand it.” His spokesman said: “Bill has been receiving improbable medication on the Royal Marsden Health center and is immensely grateful for the toughen from colleagues at Traditional FM. He hopes to be round for some time.”

• The Mountainous Wide name Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer airs tonight at 8pm. The fleshy interview with Bill, executed by his ­inclined Breakfast BBC co-star Sian Williams, is in this week’s Radio Times out now.

We had been telly rivals nevertheless he’s continuously the gracious gentleman

By Fiona Phillips

For years, Bill and I had been Breakfast TV rivals, him on BBC and me on ITV.

However I had handiest ever heard honest things about him. So after I became asked to co-host a approaching near BBC1 day-time expose, I became tickled to be taught Bill and I had been to team up. He’s a gentleman.

Within the face of all of it, he became a pride to work with. We laughed and joked, unable to talk at times for giggling.

He informed me this day he’s “dazzling on the 2nd, roughly” and the chemo “hasn’t been so defective”. Conventional Bill.