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Trevor Sorbie could have ‘weeks to live’ after bowel cancer diagnosis

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November 8, 2024

Trevor Sorbie could have ‘weeks to live’ after bowel cancer diagnosis

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This Morning favorite Trevor Sorbie has revealed he could not make it to Christmas, after declining additional therapy for most cancers.

The superstar hairdresser, 76, has groomed stars together with Dame Helen Mirren, Kylie Minogue, The Beatles’ stars George Harrison and Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, Bryan Ferry, and Lorraine Kelly.

Final month, Sorbie revealed that he had been identified with terminal bowel most cancers, which has unfold to his liver.

Regardless of being instructed that chemotherapy may give him an additional month of life, the hairdresser declined saying “I can’t face any extra of that poison” in an interview with The Occasions.

He mentioned he was instructed that he could have solely weeks left to stay.

“After I requested a nurse if I’d nonetheless be right here at Christmas, she mentioned, ‘We don’t know, Trevor’. And that aggravated me. I’ve received most cancers in my physique, however not in right here,” he mentioned. “My mind is my engine and I’ll go once I’m prepared.”

Nevertheless, regardless of not taking any additional chemo therapy, he’s nonetheless taking steroid injections to scale back ache and irritation, which has given him “mad insomnia”.

“I’m a nervous individual and fairly delicate and I fear,” he mentioned, saying he’s used to the dearth of sleep. “I can’t do something by halves. It’s 100 per cent or nothing.”

He additionally shared his expertise of styling Naomi Campbell for Elle journal.

“They wished it pulled again in a ponytail,” he mentioned. “After I moved on to the following mannequin, she pulled the elastic band out and threw it on the ground.”

Sorbie assembly Princess Anne at a charity fundraiser in 2003 (PA)

Describing the second he received his prognosis final month, Sorbie defined, “I misplaced loads of blood one night time and was unusually disturbed so went to hospital.

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“They instructed me I had bowel most cancers and I had a little bit panic assault. I checked out Carole [his wife] and she or he checked out me, we have been each speechless and didn’t know what to say. So I went and had a giant gin and tonic.”

Explaining the motivation behind his work, he mentioned “I’ve minimize wigs for ladies thus far gone they will’t elevate their heads. It’s a must to radiate empathy … ‘I’m going that can assist you. I’m going to make you look good.’ I’ve tried my finest all my life to make girls be ok with themselves.”