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Simon Meechan

BBC presenter Bill Turnbull inspired men to get prostate checks by going public with diagnosis

TV presenter and broadcaster Bill Turnbull said his decision to make his prostate cancer diagnosis public and inspire men to get tested was the “one useful thing” he had done in his life.

Bill, 66, died peacefully at home on Wednesday August 31 after a "challenging and committed fight against prostate cancer". Tributes have flooded in from colleagues.

The former BBC Breakfast presenter was diagnosed in 2017 having not seen a GP for four years. He announced he had prostate cancer in March 2018, following comic Stephen Fry doing the same a month earlier.

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