TV legend Anne Diamond fights tears as she reveals breast cancer diagnosis

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Anne Diamond revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Holding back tears, the TV star shared the news with Dan Wootton during an interview on GB News on Thursday June 8.The TV legend, 68, who presents the weekend breakfast show on the channel, shared that she has undergone a double mastectomy - which she found "incredibly hard." After a five-month break from the show, former TV-am Good Morning Britain host Anne shared that she was set to return to the screen this weekend with co-host Stephen Dixon - despite still being in the deep end of her cancer battle. "I haven’t been on a world cruise, which is what a lot of social media has been saying.

It hasn’t been a world cruise, it has been a fight against breast cancer. I'm still not at the end of the journey, but I'm through it enough to come back to work," she told Dan.

From being a panellist on Loose Women to her 2002 stint on Celebrity Big Brother, Anne has been a household name in British television ever since rising to prominence in 1983 when presenting alongside Nick Owen.The journalist was made OBE in the 2023 New Year Honours, a day which was more bittersweet than the public knew at the time - as it was the same day she received her cancer diagnosis.

Speaking of the day, Anne shared: "That was a wonderful moment and was like 9.30 in the morning. But I knew, because I'd already seen my GP, that I had to go to a breast cancer screening later in the morning.