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Emma Gritt

Jonnie Irwin says he 'looks a right state' as he shares update on cancer battle

A Place In The Sun presenter Jonnie Irwin gave fans a laugh as he shared a very relatable anecdote about Easter travel.

The 49-year-old is currently battling terminal cancer, and made reference to his ongoing treatment as he shared a frazzled-looking selfie on a train earlier today.

He wrote: "Must’ve looked a right state - crazed and panicked Chemo boy dragging a wheeled case with a strange transparent shoulder bag falling down his arm and a hot crossed bun hanging from the side of his mouth attempting to run for the departing train.

"Thankfully the kind guardsman held the door at the far end. My penance was that my seat was at the opposite end so I had to walk past all the passengers who had viewed this spectacle."

Jonnie Irwin shared this selfie along with a funny anecdote (Instagram)
Jonnie has been keeping fans up to date about his health battles (INSTAGRAM)

Jonnie, who lives in Hertfordshire with his wife Jessica and their three sons, Rex, three and twins Rafa and Cormac, two, stared ahead with an amused look on his face in the pic, a bright yellow hat pulled tightly over his head.

The ex-estate agent was first diagnosed with lung cancer in August 2020 but kept his diagnosis secret until November of last year. When he revealed that he had been living with the disease, he also explained that it had now spread to his brain - and made the heartbreaking admission that he 'doesn't know how long' he has left to live.

Since then he has been very open about his on going battle against the disease, and in February the property guru told fans he had begun Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy - which involves a hyperbaric chamber is a highly-pressurised room or tube where a patient is given pure oxygen to breathe.

Jonnie Irwin with his wife and their three sons (Instagram/jonnieirwintv)

It's thought flooding the body with concentrated oxygen can help make cancer cells easier to kill with treatments like chemotherapy and radiation while also activating the healing process in a patient's body.

Speaking about his diagnosis in March, he said he recalled how a recent kickabout with his young son almost 'broke' him, due to feeling 'weaker'.

Speaking with The Sun at the time, the doting dad explained how playing a spot of football with his son Rex left him feeling frustrated as he "couldn't get near the ball."

"I’m very sporty and suddenly it’s just like…it was as if it was the first time I’d attempted football. I felt like a granddad. And that broke me a bit," he said.

Jonnie is best known as a presenter from A Place In The Sun (Channel 4)

Jonnie previously told Hello magazine how important it was for him to be present with his family in the final months of his life.

He said: "I want to make memories and capture these moments with my family because the reality is, my boys are going to grow up not knowing their dad."

He has also been keeping himself busy with renovating the family property, and this weekend showed off a new bit of his home that he is really proud of.

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