Anne Diamond: TV presenter reveals breast cancer diagnosis

Presenter Anne Diamond has revealed she has been diagnosed with bosom cancer.

Diamond, 68, good known for hosting shows specified arsenic the archetypal Good Morning Britain connected TV-AM, said she received the diagnosis connected the aforesaid time that she recovered retired she was to beryllium made an OBE.

The presenter, who presently works for GB News, explained she had undergone a treble mastectomy successful what she described arsenic her "fight against bosom cancer".

She said it had been "a agelong journey" and the crushed for her caller absence.

"I haven't been connected a satellite cruise, which is what I cognize societal media has been saying... due to the fact that I'm good known present for loving cruises," she said successful an interrogation with her GB News workfellow Dan Wootton.

"It's been a combat against bosom cancer. That's what it's been. It's been a agelong journey. And 5 months later, I'm inactive not astatine the extremity of the journey, but I'm done it capable to travel backmost to work."

Diamond began her vocation successful determination quality earlier going connected to go a prima of daytime telly, successful the 1980s and 1990s, for some the BBC and ITV.

The British journalist, broadcaster, and children's wellness campaigner hosted shows specified arsenic Good Morning with Anne and Nick, alongside Nick Owen, arsenic good arsenic TV Weekly.

A acquainted look to viewers of shows similar Loose Women, Channel 5's The Wright Stuff and its replacement Jeremy Vine, Diamond appeared connected Celebrity Big Brother successful 2002.

Diamond lives successful Kidlington, Oxfordshire, besides presented connected BBC Radio Oxford and BBC Radio Berkshire.

She joined GB News past twelvemonth to beforehand its play meal amusement with Stephen Dixon, but the past six months person seen her measurement backmost from her duties connected wellness grounds.

She explained she had received her crab diagnosis connected the aforesaid greeting that she received an email saying she was to beryllium made an OBE successful the 2023 New Year Honours for services to nationalist wellness and foundation owed to her campaigning connected cot death.

After her lad Sebastian died from abrupt babe decease syndrome [Sids] successful 1991, Diamond joined forces with the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID), present the Lullaby Trust, and wellness authorities to motorboat the Back to Sleep campaign.

Recalling the time she heard astir her OBE, she said: "It was a fantastic infinitesimal and that was similar 9:30 successful the morning.

"But I knew then, due to the fact that I'd already seen my GP, that I had to spell to a bosom crab screening happening aboriginal successful the morning. I thought I would conscionable spell for a mammogram, and a mates of tests and I'd beryllium escaped successful an hour.

"I spent the full greeting astatine my section infirmary wherever they did everything, biopsies, X-rays, CT scans, a mates of mammograms, everything, and by lunchtime I was inactive there.

"And a beauteous woman came with a lanyard astir her cervix that said MacMillan Cancer Care and I knew past it was serious."

Diamond went connected to accidental she was "still going done it", with notation to her crab treatment, and that she had recovered radiotherapy "very hard". The archetypal cognition she had, she noted, was 9 hours long.

But she said she was present "well enough" to instrumentality to enactment connected her existent amusement from this Saturday.

"So it's been a journey, but I'm not pretending for a infinitesimal that I americium extraordinary, due to the fact that I americium afloat alert that a 4th of women successful this state are going done what I've conscionable gone done and I don't person immoderate proposal to give," she said.

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