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Emma Shacklock

MAFS expert Mel Schilling reveals cancer diagnosis is terminal - 'I don’t know how long I have left, but I do know I will fight'

Mel Schilling attends the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises at The Royal Festival Hall on May 11, 2025.

Relationship expert and Married at First Sight star Mel Schilling has shared the heartwrenching news that she has terminal cancer, following almost two years of treatment. After sharing her cancer diagnosis back in 2023, she took to Instagram to explain that her oncology team have told her "there is nothing further they can do".

"In December 2023 I was diagnosed with colon cancer after a tumour the size of a lemon was discovered during a scan. "Terry," as I called him, was successfully removed and I was initially given the all clear — that much many of you already know," she wrote. "Unfortunately, in late February 2024 during a routine scan, small nodules were discovered in my lungs. The cancer had metastasised."

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