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Dancing on Ice star Adele Roberts has opened up about how she had early symptoms of bowel cancer during her time on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here.
Adele was diagnosed with stage two bowel cancer in 2021. She underwent colostomy surgery and chemotherapy. She received the all-clear from doctors the following June, and now lives with a stoma bag.
In her new memoir, Personal Best: From Rock Bottom to the Top of the World, the radio presenter speaks about how she first had cancer symptoms while on I'm a Celeb in 2019. She tells readers that she'd laugh when her celeb campmates would tell her: "You look like you’re dead when you’re asleep," but admitted to being unusually tired.
As reported by The Mirror, Adele writes in her book: "I also used to find it very hard to stay awake once the sun had gone down. It was like my body would lose power with the light."
On one occasion, the broadcaster and reality star was so cold that she wasn’t able to stay up for their much-needed evening meal. Instead, she wrapped up in all of the clothing she had, got inside her sleeping bag and "just shut down".
She added: "My campmates were so worried about me." And the same could be said of her partner, Kate Holderness, who was watching at home and "knew there was something wrong too. I would never go to bed without having my tea. She rang one of the producers to say she was worried.”
The show’s medic was secretly providing her with nutrition shakes, but this didn’t stop the weight loss or the stomach pain. “I didn’t know it at the time, but I was ill with bowel cancer,” she says of her time in the jungle.
Stating that she originally thought the first signs of my cancer started to show a couple of years after she appeared on I’m a Celeb, she says: “I was wrong. It was there for us all to see in the camp, but we didn’t know.”
Advising readers on what to look out for, she writes: “So just to reiterate: loss of appetite, a sore, bloated tummy, weight loss and fatigue. These are the classic symptoms of bowel cancer, and they were playing out on TV for all to see.”
Earlier this year, Adele became the first person to compete in Dancing On Ice with a stoma bag, and she made it all the way to the final, eventually coming third with her professional skating partner Mark Hanretty, while Corrie’s Ryan Thomas was the overall winner.
Speaking to virginradio.co.uk and other press about navigating the competition with her stoma bag, she said: “I'm still getting used to having a stoma because I've not had one that long, and some people have them from birth. The way that the ostomate community have supported me, it's been amazing.”
Personal Best: From Rock Bottom to the Top of the World is out now.
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