James Martin reveals shock cancer diagnosis with TV chef getting ...
JAMES Martin has revealed his shock cancer diagnosis - with the star getting "regular treatment".
The TV chef, 51, said that he underwent surgery for the facial cancer in 2018 - before it returned on "several occasions".
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He shared his shock diagnosis after leaked audio emerged of him ranting at staff for ten minutes.
Martin sweared 42 times as he ranted over a drain which was blocked at his home while filming for James Martin’s Saturday Morning.
In response, Martin said that time was "one of the most fraught and difficult periods of my life".
He added: "I was then diagnosed with cancer on my face and I had to have surgery, which I couldn't do until two days before Christmas when we had finished filming.
"Since then it has returned on several occasions and I have to have regular treatments."
Martin presented the BBC food show Saturday Kitchen from 2006 until 2016.
He later defected to ITV, presenting Saturday Morning with James Martin since 2017.
The chef has also been the face of foodie travelogues James Martin's French Adventure and James Martin's American Adventure.
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Martin was the fourth-place contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2005 and has guest-presented The One Show and This Morning.
Born in the North Riding of Yorkshire, Martin has been in a relationship with TV producer Louise Davies since 2011 - after they met on Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Martin said he "sincerely apologised" to the crew at the time of the rant in 2018.
He said: "I have always strived to keep my private life private. However since details of a conversation, which was secretly recorded in January 2018, are now five years later being made public by a former member of our production team, I have decided to make a statement.
"The end of 2017 was one of the most fraught and difficult periods of my life.
"I was dealing with the death of my last living grandparent, my grandfather, and on account of work commitments I could not attend his funeral.
"Later that month I was burgled at night by a team of masked men, who entered my house while my partner Louise was at home alone and I was away working.
"I was devastated that she had to go through that alone."
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