Jamie Theakston has revealed he is cancer-free as he makes his return to Heart Breakfast.
Jamie was diagnosed with stage one laryngeal cancer back in September 2024 after listeners noticed a difference in his voice. Speaking on the show today, Jamie confirmed he would be back on the show next week.
As he returned to the programme this morning alongside Amanda Holden and Jason King, he told listeners: “Today is the four-month anniversary of my cancer diagnosis. So it’s been four months, and I’ve had enough of hospitals and operations, and it’s just lovely to be back, and I’ve got some news for you. Because I can tell you that as of today, I’m cancer free.”
Making his return, Jamie opened up about what the last few months had been like for him and his family.
“A whole family suffers. As you said, it’s not just the individual, and they’ve been amazingly supportive. Everyone has been so supportive. It’s been unbelievable and it’s just blown me away. So, I wanted to thank everyone who sent me messages. Every single person I’ve ever met or known has been in touch. People I’ve forgotten all about have been in touch,” he said.
Jamie recalled how he had been told he had a “one in six chance” of not being able to talk again. He shared: “Anyone who’s been through what I’ve been through will know it’s kind of you just get a barrage of statistics. So they’ll always tell you in the first one, when I got my diagnosis which came as an enormous shock, by the way, I was fully intended to be told that I had a sore throat.
“And when I was told, ‘oh, it’s probably cancer,’ just, literally, I just didn’t even know what to say. I mean, it just blew my mind. And so then it’s all about statistics. So the first is go, ‘Well, you’ll have a one in ten chance you won’t survive it.’ And you kind of go, ‘Oh okay, I’ll take that.’ And then I had to do several surgeries. So, the first surgery wasn’t as successful as we hoped.
“Had a second surgery, and then a third surgery, and each time, I was doing more and more damage to my vocal cords. So, in actual fact, by the third one, they said, ‘well, look, you’ve got a one in six chance you might not be able to talk again.’ And so, then you kind of think, ‘oh, okay, that’s like rolling a dice,’ yeah, I’ll take that. And so, there’s just a kind of, it’s just statistics after statistics.”
Amanda Holden was thrilled to have her co-star back. She told him: ” It was devastating for us all to hear it. But we are so thrilled that you sound great and you are in the studio,” as they both confirmed Jamie would return to the show next Monday.
Thanking Jason King for standing in for him, Jamie added: “I did want to say I’ve got a lot of thank you’s that I want to do, which I will do next week. But there’s one person who won’t be in on Monday, and that is this man here. And JK, you’ve done such an amazing job. You came in at the last minute, and I know what an upheaval it is. You’ve got a young family, and literally, were told, ‘oh, you’ve got to come in tomorrow,’ and then from then on, you didn’t know how long you were going to do it for. So, you know, one month, then two months, and then it was three months. And you’ve done such a fantastic job.”
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