BBC’s Nick Owen gives update on Anne Diamond’s cancer after pair’s shock joint battle | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV [Video]

Nick Owen has said that he and GB News host Anne Diamond are “emerging from the swamp” after they both were diagnosed with cancer last year. The BBC Midlands presenter was told he had aggressive prostate cancer despite his PSA readings being low and not having any symptoms.

Two months later, Nick’s former co-star Anne, 69, announced she had been diagnosed with breast cancer on the same day she found out she was to receive an MBE. Speaking to Express.co.uk, Nick, 76, said while he hasn’t spoken to Anne about her cancer journey for several weeks, she seemed to be “doing fine”.

He shared: “We’ve had parallel issues, it’s quite ironic considering we’re so associated with each other over our careers. It linked so much, she get breast cancer and I get prostate cancer which are the two main male and female cancers.

“Particularly in the early stages, we were talking to each other a lot, she was having a …