Telling my boys I had cancer was hard..but they need to be on the case

TV's Nick Owen on importance of men getting prostate checks

- MARK JEFFERIES

NICK Owen has urged more men to get tested for prostate cancer and not to be scared to talk about it after he faced some emotional conversations with his own sons.

The former breakfast TV host, who shared the TV-am sofa with Anne Diamond, was diagnosed with the disease in 2023 but has been successfully treated.

However the 76-year-old fears his sons could be at risk too.

Nick, who is back working after a prostate-specific antigen test a couple of weeks ago showed his cancer has not returned, said: "I've been through the middle of it. And I realised that the sooner you get seen the better.

"We had an MRI, there was a hint there was something going on. Then I had a biopsy. And that would tell us that it was really nasty and aggressive. And we need to do something quickly.