Anne Diamond has announced that she has breast cancer.
The GB News anchor described how she was diagnosed on the same day she received her OBE.
After undergoing a double mastectomy, the presenter claimed it was a “hell of a trip,” but she is now “through it enough” to return to work.
Concerning Dan Wootton Tonight, Anne revealed that she has been fighting the condition for five months and is 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 received an OBE in the 2023 New Year’s Honours List for her contributions to public health and safety.
Anne, in particular, worked to increase awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
For BBC One, the journalist also broadcast Good Morning Britain and Good Morning with Anne and Nick.
Anne has also hosted radio programmes on LBC, Radio Oxford, BBC London, and BBC Berkshire, as well as panel series such as Loose Women and The Wright Stuff.
The TV personality has been absent from GB News for six months, but will return on Saturday to headline Breakfast with Dixon.
