Kevin's new challenge: ‘WE WORRIED IT WAS THE END'

A HEALTH SCARE HAS MADE KEVIN RETHINK HIS FUTURE

- Cloe Willetts

When television and radio presenter Kevin Milne signed up as a companion at Mary Potter Hospice last year, the former Fair Go host knew he’d be sharing life stories and final moments with palliative care patients. But the father of four hadn’t expected to question his own mortality just weeks later when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

“It went through my mind that I might have a companion myself before the year was out,” admits Kevin, 71, speaking to the Weekly from his home in Raumati Beach, where he lives with his wife of 42 years, Linda, 64. “When you’re in your seventies, you find out how you’ll react to hearing it’s all going to be over and I thought, ‘Well, you’ve got to go somehow.’ I’ve had amazingly good luck most of my life and have a glorious family and beautiful wife. I can’t complain, really.”

Thankfully for the popular broadcaster, who is a regular guest on Jack Tame’s Newstalk ZB Saturday Morning radio show, his diagnosis last September was followed by positive news.

“There are about five different versions of prostate cancer and I have the least worrying,” tells Kevin, who had prostate surgeries in 2011 and 2012.