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This Morning star 'ignored bowel cancer symptoms' and now has 'weeks left to live'

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Updated 14:48 7 Nov 2024 GMTPublished 14:44 7 Nov 2024 GMT

This Morning star 'ignored bowel cancer symptoms' and now has 'weeks left to live'

He has cut the hair of celebrities for decades, with famous clients including Paul McCartney and Kylie Minogue

Tom Earnshaw

Tom Earnshaw

A regular guest on ITV's This Morning has revealed he 'ignored' key bowel cancer symptoms as he says he has just 'weeks left to live' as a result of the disease.

Trevor Sorbie has cut the hair of celebrities for decades, with famous clients including Dame Helen Mirren, George Harrison, and the Beach Boys. He also created the wedge cut, which you will know by image if not by name.

But now, aged 75, Sorbie has revealed he does not have long left to live and might not make it to Christmas due to how quickly his cancer is taking over his body.

Appearing on This Morning last month, Sorbie said that in June he was told by medical professionals that he had 'maybe six months' left to live.

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Then, during a scan in September, Sorbie's wife Carole revealed that they realised 'no treatment is going to work'.

Now, in an interview with The Times published last weekend, Sorbie and his partner - who he describes as 'Florence Nightingale and Mother Teresa rolled into one' - revealed he had ignored key symptoms of the cancer for months.

The couple said that in 2019 Carole had been forced to ring for an ambulance after he began bleeding heavily.

Trevor Sorbie had symptoms of bowel cancer that his wife says he ignored for months (ITV)
Trevor Sorbie had symptoms of bowel cancer that his wife says he ignored for months (ITV)

Sorbie said he had no symptoms of the cancer but was quickly corrected by Carole, who said he had diarrhoea and constipation for months.

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"I'm a man. Men are scared," he candidly replied.

Surgery saw a mass in Sorbie's bowel removed, with just a five percent chance of the tumour coming back. Tragically, Sorbie was in that five percent.

And while being told he might not be here at Christmas, Sorbie is remaining positive and hopes to make it to the big day.

“I never wake up thinking, ‘Oh, poor me. I’ve got cancer I feel sorry for myself’,” he said on This Morning.

“I go to work, well up until two weeks ago, two days a week, and I go there because that’s my medicine. That is my life - 60 years. I’ve worked passionately to achieve beyond my wildest dreams, actually, and when I go in it’s my staff, I’ve had them for up to 30 years, they’re family. I’m just one of the team.”

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Sorbie says he has 'weeks to live' due to his cancer (David M Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Sorbie says he has 'weeks to live' due to his cancer (David M Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

Sorbie's chemotherapy treatment has come to an end but he regularly takes steroid injections to stop the pain and inflammation in his body from getting too much. But it is treatment that has given him 'mad insomnia', he says.

Under the NHS, bowel cancer screening tests can be done at home and checks for signs of bowel cancer. It's offered to everyone aged 54 to 74.

Symptoms of bowel cancer

According to the NHS, symptoms of bowel cancer may include:

  • Changes in your poo, e.g. having softer faeces, diarrhoea or constipation that is not usual for you
  • Needing to go for a number two more or less often than usual for you
  • Blood appearing in your poo, which may look red or black
  • Bleeding from your bum
  • Feeling like you need to poo often, even if you've just been to the loo
  • Pain/a lump in the stomach
  • Bloating, losing weight without trying, and feeling very tired for no reason

If you’ve been affected by any of these issues and want to speak to someone in confidence, contact Macmillan’s Cancer Support Line on 0808 808 00 00, 8am–8pm seven days a week.

Featured Image Credit: ITV/Emma Peios/WireImage

Topics: Cancer, Celebrity, Health, ITV, This Morning, TV and Film

Tom Earnshaw
Tom Earnshaw

Tom joined LADbible Group in 2024, currently working as SEO Lead across all brands including LADbible, UNILAD, SPORTbible, Tyla, UNILAD Tech, and GAMINGbible. He moved to the company from Reach plc where he enjoyed spells as a content editor and senior reporter for one of the country's most-read local news brands, LancsLive. When he's not in work, Tom spends his adult life as a suffering Manchester United supporter after a childhood filled with trebles and Premier League titles. You can't have it all forever, I suppose.

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