Travel presenter Jonnie Irwin has shared an amusing story with fans after using UK public transport over the Easter break. The A Place In The Sun presenter was diagnosed with terminal cancer two years ago.
The 49-year-old is undergoing chemotherapy and shared a selfie in which he said he looked 'a right state'. The picture, snapped on a train, was posted on his Instagram.
He wrote: "Must’ve looked a right state - crazed and panicked Chemo boy dragging a wheeled case with a strange transparent shoulder bag falling down his arm and a hot crossed bun hanging from the side of his mouth attempting to run for the departing train. Thankfully the kind guardsman held the door at the far end.
"My penance was that my seat was at the opposite end so I had to walk past all the passengers who had viewed this spectacle."
Jonnie, who lives in Hertfordshire with his wife Jessica and their three sons, Rex, three, and two-year-old twins Rafa and Cormac, wore a bright yellow hat in the picture, reports MirrorOnline. The ex-estate agent was first diagnosed with lung cancer in August 2020 but kept his diagnosis secret until November of last year.
When he revealed that he had the disease, he explained it had spread to his brain. At the time, he made the heartbreaking admission that he 'doesn't know how long' he has left to live.
Since then he has been very open about his ongoing treatment for the disease. In February the property guru told fans he had begun Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy - a hyperbaric chamber is a highly-pressurised room or tube where a patient is given pure oxygen to breathe.
It's thought flooding the body with concentrated oxygen can help make cancer cells easier to kill with treatments like chemotherapy and radiation while also activating the healing process in a patient's body.
Speaking about his diagnosis in March, Jonnie said he recalled how a recent kickabout with his young son almost 'broke' him, due to feeling 'weaker'. The doting dad told The Sun at the time how playing a spot of football with his son Rex left him feeling frustrated as he "couldn't get near the ball."
"I’m very sporty and suddenly it’s just like…it was as if it was the first time I’d attempted football. I felt like a granddad. And that broke me a bit," he said.
Jonnie previously told Hello magazine how important it was for him to be present with his family in the final months of his life.
He said: "I want to make memories and capture these moments with my family because the reality is, my boys are going to grow up not knowing their dad."
He has also been keeping himself busy with renovating the family property, and this weekend showed off a new bit of his home that he is really proud of.
