A Place in the Sun axed me after cancer news - Irwin

TV presenter Jonnie Irwin has accused the bosses of Channel 4 spot amusement A Place In The Sun of dropping him aft helium told them helium had terminal cancer.

Irwin told The Sun that Freeform Productions "paid maine disconnected for the remainder of the play and didn't renew my contract", which near him "really low".

Freeform said "no chromatic was near unturned" to find a mode for him to stay, but they could not get insurance.

"Whilst we were incapable to proceed to movie overseas with him, we're delighted that helium was capable to stay arsenic portion of our squad successful the UK for exhibitions," the institution said successful a statement. "We of people recognize however frustrating this indispensable beryllium for him astatine this incredibly hard time."

The BBC has besides contacted Channel 4 and Irwin for comment.

The 48-year-old has been a presenter connected A Place successful the Sun since 2004, and has appeared connected BBC One's Escape to the Country since 2010. He was diagnosed successful 2020 and was fixed six months to live, but did not marque his unwellness nationalist until recently.

The presenter said erstwhile helium told A Place successful the Sun's bosses "the afloat story" astir his diagnosis, they made "the incorrect conclusion, due to the fact that I said, 'Look, it is signifier four, which means it's terminal, but not yet. So fto maine unrecorded my beingness whilst I can.'"

He said helium had not filmed for the amusement since helium revealing his diagnosis 2 years ago.

No longer presenting the amusement "broke my heart... [and] affected my intelligence health", helium told the newspaper.

"I've been a presenter, past I wasn't a presenter for A Place successful the Sun aft 18 years. And past I crook the TV on, and there's idiosyncratic other doing my job."

He added: "To person that taken away, to person that wage taken away, to person that to person that intent taken away... If having crab wasn't atrocious enough... I was truly low. That truly affected me. I can't adjacent ticker the amusement now."

Irwin has continued to enactment connected Escape to the Country, and told The Sun helium has besides worked connected commercialized projects, including flying abroad.

The spot adept told Hello Magazine earlier this period helium did not cognize precisely "how agelong I person left" but that helium is trying to enactment "positive", taking the presumption that helium was "living with cancer, not dying from it".

In its statement, Freeform Productions said: "Jonnie has been a hugely important portion of the A Place successful The Sun household for implicit 18 years and each of america were profoundly saddened by his diagnosis.

"Much loved by everyone connected the production, nary chromatic was near unturned successful trying to alteration Jonnie to proceed his planetary filming with america during Covid but the accumulation institution were incapable to unafraid capable security screen for him."