Anne Diamond has revealed she has breast cancer.
The GB News presenter explained how she was diagnosed on the same day she was awarded an OBE.
Having undergone a double mastectomy, the broadcaster said it’s been ‘a hell of a journey’, though she is now ‘through it enough’ to come back to work.
Speaking on Dan Wootton Tonight, Anne said she’s endured a five-month ‘fight’ against the disease and she’s still going through it.
Anne explained: ‘It was a wonderful moment [being notified about the OBE] and that was like 9.30 in the morning.
‘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.’
The mother-of-five added: ‘I don’t have any advice for people because I’m still going through it. But I’m well enough to return to work. I had the full works, the full mastectomy.
‘God, 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.
‘I don’t remember it. I was in and out like that, but nine hours of removal and rebuild, that took a lot of getting over and then I had an operation later where they took out lymph nodes as well, just to make sure they can trace the travel, if the cancer has travelled at all to the rest of the body. Luckily I don’t think it did.
‘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.’
Anne was awarded the OBE in the 2023 New Years Honours for her work for public health and safety.
Most notably, Anne campaigned to raise awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
In her on screen work, the journalist also presented Good Morning Britain and Good Morning with Anne and Nick for BBC One.
Anne has also been a presenter on radio shows on LBC, Radio Oxford, BBC London and BBC Berkshire, as well as appearing on panel shows like Loose Women and The Wright Stuff.
The TV star has been off work from GB News for six months, but will return to GB News on Saturday to host Breakfast with Dixon.
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