A Place In The Sun's Jonnie Irwin has asked people to give those diagnosed with cancer the "same opportunities for fun and living" as everyone else.
The 48-year-old revealed last month that he has lung cancer which has spread to his brain. Since his diagnosis, he has gone on record as wanting others to treat him as a "normal human being" and not mollycoddle him.
Appearing on BBC's Morning Live, he said: "I have good days, I have bad days but the word cancer is absolutely loaded. I think the most terrifying word in the English language. As soon as someone hears cancer they just think 'Oh are you okay?'.
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"I am sure lots of people are like me, we don't want people making decisions on our behalf. 'Oh don't invite Jonnie, he won't be well enough' or 'he might ill'. Please invite me, I'll make that decision thank you very much.
"We don't need mollycoddling, we are normal human beings, as normal as it gets. So treat us as you would do two years ago. We're normal human beings the same as everyone else and we want the same opportunities for fun and living as everybody else gets."
Jonnie previously revealed the first warning sign of his illness came while he was filming A Place In The Sun in August 2020, in Italy, when his vision became blurry while driving.
The presenter said he chose to keep his illness private until now as he did not want people to treat him differently and that he still needed to work.
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