- BBC Midlands As we speak colleague learn out emotional messages, prompting tears
- The 76-year-old was awarded an MBE for providers to charity and broadcasting
Veteran BBC presenter Nick Owen broke down on air as he mentioned his most cancers battle with colleagues and obtained a touching message from his son.
Paying tribute to work that noticed the 76-year-old awarded an MBE earlier this yr, BBC Midlands As we speak colleague Ben Godfrey learn out a choice of messages that prompted Mr Owen to nicely up.
A message from bereavement charity Edward’s Belief mentioned: ‘He is grow to be a part of our household. He is all the time discovered time to assist us in our work His MBE is nicely deserved.’
One other message mentioned: ‘I bought examined myself after his sickness and was recognized late final yr with prostate most cancers. Thus far, it seems to be like early detection has paid off.’
Nick’s personal son, Tim, mentioned ‘very happy with you Dad’, because the TV stalwart stifled sobs.
The broadcaster was overwhelmed by the tribute
He has been praised for elevating most cancers consciousness
‘My Tim… oh bless you. And I do need to thank everybody who’s been in contact, , and so supportive’, Mr Owen managed so as to add.
‘And I am so grateful that folks have responded to the message within the first place about prostate most cancers as a result of that is such an vital factor.
‘Individuals are speaking about it much more now. Not simply due to me, however varied folks have been in the identical scenario.’
The previous TV-am host has been was battling ‘intensive’ and ‘aggressive’ prostate most cancers in August, and has since been efficiently handled.
He beforehand instructed the Lethal Silent Podcast: ‘I have been by the center of it. And I realised that the earlier you get seen the higher.
‘We had an MRI, there was a touch there was one thing happening. Then I had a biopsy. And that might inform us that it was actually nasty and aggressive. And we have to do one thing shortly.
He was rewarded for his work with a current MBE
The messages included one from his personal son
He shed tears of happiness throughout the interview
He admits his first determination was to inform his 4 grownup youngsters, three of them boys, so they may concentrate on the doubtless hereditary sickness and its warning indicators
‘Telling my youngsters was tough. I’ve bought 4 youngsters, three are our boys, two of their forties and one of their late thirties, and it was fairly emotional.’
He added: ‘Additionally, so far as the boys [Andy, Tim and Chris] are involved, it is a warning as a result of it may be a hereditary factor.
‘I am very eager for my boys to be extraordinarily on the case. I am going to work on them to go sooner than 50, to be sincere, to have the PSA checks. And the message must be if in case you have bought any trace of a fear, get somebody to take a look at it.’
Owen obtained his analysis simply weeks after his former TV-am co-presenter Anne Diamond, 68, revealed she is battling breast most cancers and has undergone a mastectomy.
Together with their stint on TV-am, the pair had their very own present affairs morning programme on the BBC within the Nineties, Good Morning With Anne And Nick.
Talking concerning the debilitating affect the situation has had on his life, he has mentioned: ‘I went to a specialist, he wasn’t too nervous as a result of my figures weren’t that top.
‘However he determined I should have a scan, after which the scan mentioned there’s one thing dodgy happening, after which he despatched me for a biopsy, which he did.
‘And the outcomes of that had been the killer – on April the thirteenth, a date (which) will ceaselessly be imprinted on my thoughts.
