Broadcasting veteran Anne Diamond reveals breast most cancers prognosis
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roadcasting veteran Anne Diamond has revealed she has been recognized with breast most cancers.
The GB News presenter stated she had acquired the prognosis the identical day as discovering out she was to be made OBE.
After starting her profession in regional news, Diamond went on to work for each ITV and the BBC, turning into a star of daytime TV within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.
She introduced programmes like BBC One’s Good Morning with Anne And Nick, TV-am’s Good Morning Britain and TV Weekly.
She joined GB News in 2022 to host weekend breakfast reveals with Stephen Dixon, although has been off air for six months.
Speaking to GB News’ Dan Wootton, she revealed she had undergone a double mastectomy in her “fight against breast cancer” – which she described as “a long journey”.
“I haven’t been on a world cruise, which is what I know social media has been saying… because I’m well known now for loving cruises,” she stated.
“It’s been a fight against breast cancer. That’s what it’s been. It’s been a long journey. And five months later, I’m still not at the end of the journey, but I’m through it enough to come back to work.”
Diamond recalled how she had discovered the news on the identical morning she was informed by way of e-mail that she had been awarded an OBE for her campaigning on cot deaths.
She and her then husband Mike Hollingsworth misplaced their son Sebastian in 1990 after he died from sudden toddler loss of life syndrome (Sids) – generally referred to as cot loss of life.
It’s been an extended journey. And 5 months later, I’m nonetheless not on the finish of the journey, however I’m via it sufficient to come back again to work.
Diamond joined forces with the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID), now often known as The Lullaby Trust, and the Department of Health to launch the profitable Back to Sleep marketing campaign.
She was made OBE within the 2023 New Year Honours for providers to public well being and charity.
“It was a wonderful moment and that was like 9.30 in the morning,” she informed GB News.
“But I knew then, because I’d already seen my GP, that I had to go to a breast cancer screening thing later in the morning. I thought I would just go for a mammogram, and a couple of tests and I’d be free in an hour.
“I spent the entire morning at my local hospital where they did everything, biopsies, X-rays, CT scans, a couple of mammograms, everything, and by lunchtime I was still there.
“And a lovely lady came with a lanyard around her neck that said MacMillan Cancer Care and I knew then it was serious.”
Diamond added that she didn’t have recommendation for others as she was “still going through it”, however added that she was “well enough” to return to work.
“I had the full works, the full mastectomy. This is the first time I’ve talked about it, so it’s quite difficult but I’ve had the full works. The first operation I had was nine hours long,” she stated.
“I’ve had a load of radiotherapy, which I found very hard too.
“So it’s been a journey, but I’m not pretending for a minute that I am extraordinary, because I am fully aware that a quarter of women in this country are going through what I’ve just gone through and I don’t have any advice to give.
“I only have empathy.”
Diamond will return to GB News on Saturday to host Breakfast with Dixon.
She has additionally been a presenter on radio reveals on LBC, Radio Oxford, BBC London and BBC Berkshire in addition to a panellist on Loose Women and The Wright Stuff – a topical debate present hosted by journalist Matthew Wright.
In 2002 Diamond appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and have become the second individual to be evicted.