Jonnie Irwin has admitted to "peeling myself out of bed" and "munching painkillers" as he battles terminal cancer.
The presenter, known for both A Place in the Sun and Escape to the Country, was speaking to The Mirror after he made a rare appearance on the red carpet at the annual TRIC Awards on 27 June.
Other celebrities at the event included Piers Morgan, Susanna Reid, Fleur East, Vanessa Feltz and Danielle Harold.
Jonnie, 49 – who was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2020 – added that he is "taking every day as a gift and as it comes", after he revealed the cancer had spread to his brain.
He also said to The Mirror: "Today is a good day. Yesterday I peeled myself out of bed and munched painkillers but so far so good today."
Jonnie shares three young children with his wife Jessica: Rex, three, and twins Rafa and Cormac, two.
He recently urged his fans in an emotional interview not to “make the same mistake” that he did.
He was speaking to AIG Life's The OneChat podcast when he candidly revealed what he regrets and urged fans not to do the same.
On the podcast, he said: “I didn’t take critical illness insurance out and therefore I had to keep working.
“Without work, I’ve got no means of paying the bills. And if I had taken the critical illness insurance out, that could’ve covered my outgoings and I probably could’ve told the world a lot sooner."
He continued and said he could have had a more “open lifestyle” if he had taken out the cover before he said: “I thought I was doing well just taking out life insurance. It’s one positive thing and helped me a great deal in getting a financial position in life to know my wife and my boys are more secure. But how I wish I’d taken out that extra cover.”
Jonnie was initially given six months to live when first diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, but has outlived doctors' predictions with the help of medication, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Last November, he appeared on Good Morning Britain where he discussed his diagnosis and revealed that trolls had forced him to go public.
He said: "I wanted to keep it secret because professionally I didn't want to lose work. Also, socially and emotionally, people treat you differently.
"People start making decisions for you: 'I didn't want to ask you because you know you've got cancer'.
"So if I withheld that information, I found I could live a normal life right up until probably a year ago."
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