JONNIE Irwin kept his cancer diagnosis a secret for two years over fears he’d lost TV work if producers found out he was dying. The former A Place in The Sun host, 49, who says he was axed fr…
“I want to go knowing that Jess and the boys are looked after,” he said.
That’s why, he said, it hurt all the more when Freeform Productions, the company behind A Place in the Sun, stopped giving him work after his diagnosis.He said: “Yes,and I need to put a roof over our heads and food on the table but work is something that’s really important to me. It also stops me thinking about cancer.
“Even though I look thinner and I’m without hair, Escape to the Country and A Place in the Sun Ltd, which runs the show’s exhibitions, have employed me and I’ve been so impressed by them. But I didn’t get that support from A Place in the Sun.Jonnie says of his Channel 4 show axing 'Within two weeks someone else was on TV doing my job'But the TV star says 'In the meantime, I’m determined to just keep living'“I told them I wanted to work.
“They said, ‘We don’t think we can get the insurance’, not ‘We can’t get the insurance’, but, ‘We don’t think…’A statement from
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