OHMYGOSSIP — Jonnie Irwin has suffered a “cruel blow” after he was left with irreparable liver damage.
The 49-year-old TV star was given six months to live when he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2020 – which has since spread to his brain – and he recently went to Turkey for several treatments, including chemotherapy, heat therapy and infusions, which shrank a number of his tumours.
But he has now been left with liver damage.
He told HELLO! magazine: “It’s blocked in a place they can’t operate on, so there’s no point fighting the cancer elsewhere if the liver’s not working. It’s a cruel blow.”
Speaking about his death, he said: “It can happen at any time. I’m here to stop it for as long as possible.”
Jonnie and his family, wife Jessica Holmes and their children, Rex, four, and two-year-old twins Rafa and Cormac, moved from Hertfordshire to Newcastle 18 months ago to be nearer her family.
While the ‘A Place in the Sun’ host admits he would’ve preferred to have seen his time out in southern England, he doesn’t want Jessica to be alone when he dies.
He added: “I didn’t want to move here – I liked my life down south and would have loved to have spent my last days there.
“But I wouldn’t want Jess to be on her own, so I took the bullet. And as soon as I saw it, I thought, ‘This is the house for our family forever.’ ”
Jonnie is also proud that they are “mortgage-free” in the family home thanks to him.
He added: “We’re mortgage-free, which is all down to me, and I’m proud of that. And I can make it cool.
“We just need to get enough money to finish the work I’ve started and leave the boys something.”
Source: VacationHunter.Online