A breast cancer diagnosis was made public by presenter Anne Diamond.
Diamond, 68, who is well known for hosting programs like the first season of Good Morning Britain on TV-AM, claimed that the day she learned she would be awarded the OBE also happened to be the day she received the diagnosis.
The presenter, who is currently employed by GB News, revealed that she had a double mastectomy as part of her "fight against breast cancer.".
She explained that her recent absence was due to "a long journey" that had taken place.
"Contrary to what social media has been reporting, I haven't taken a world cruise. due to the fact that I'm now known for loving cruises," she claimed in an interview with her GB News coworker Dan Wootton.
There has been a battle against breast cancer. That is how it has been. The trip was very far. Five months later, I haven't reached my destination yet, but I've made enough progress to return to my job. ".
Diamond started her career in local news before rising to fame on daytime television for the BBC and ITV in the 1980s and 1990s.
Together with Nick Owen, the British journalist, broadcaster, and advocate for children's health hosted TV Weekly and Good Morning with Anne and Nick.
Diamond, a well-known figure to viewers of programs like Loose Women, The Wright Stuff on Channel 5, and Jeremy Vine, which took its place, appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2002.
She started working for GB News last year to co-host the weekend breakfast program with Stephen Dixon, but she has had to take a break from that role for the past six months due to health issues.
She explained that the morning she learned she had cancer was also the morning she got an email informing her she would be awarded an OBE in the 2023 New Year Honors for services to public health and charity as a result of her work to end cot death.
In order to start the Back to Sleep campaign, Diamond teamed up with the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID), now known as the Lullaby Trust, and health authorities after her son Sebastian passed away from sudden infant death syndrome [Sids] in 1991.
She said it was a wonderful moment and it was around 9:30 in the morning when she recalled the day she learned about her OBE.
But since I had already seen my doctor, I was aware that I needed to attend a breast cancer screening later that morning. I figured I would just get a mammogram, a few tests, and be done in an hour.
"I spent the entire morning at my neighborhood hospital, where they performed all the necessary procedures—biopsies, X-rays, CT scans, a few mammograms, everything—and I was still there at lunchtime.
"Then a lovely woman arrived who had a lanyard around her neck that read MacMillan Cancer Care, and I knew then that the situation was grave. ".
Diamond continued by stating that she had found radiotherapy to be "very hard" and that she was "still going through it" in regards to her cancer treatment. She mentioned that the first surgery she underwent took nine hours.
However, she claimed that as of this coming Saturday, she would be "well enough" to work on her current show.
So it's been a journey, she said, "but I'm not pretending for a second that I am extraordinary, because I 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 possess empathy. ".
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