TV presenter 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, who presents Channel 4’s A Place In The Sun and the BBC’s Escape To The Country, revealed last month that he has lung cancer which has spread to his brain.
Irwin, who previously said he did not know “how much time I have left”, has said he wants others to treat him as a “normal human being” and not mollycoddle him. Appearing on BBC’s Morning Live on Thursday, 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?’.
