Anne Diamond has returned to GB News after revealing earlier this week she was battling breast cancer.

Anne Diamond has returned to GB News after revealing earlier this week she was battling breast cancer.

The star returned to her regular breakfast spot alongside Stephen Dixon – having been temporarily replaced for the last six months by news reporter Ellie Costello.

Speaking this morning (SAT) on GB News: the 68 year old presenter said “It’s lovely to be back. Thank you very much. And thank you very much to Ellie. She said she’d be watching, I think she’s done a magnificent job, but it’s nice to be back with you. I hoped to be back in time for the Coronation, but that was a bit over-optimistic.”

Her return follows an interview on Thursday, June 8, with Dan Wootton on GB News, in which Anne told viewers the illness has been “a hell of a journey” after going from the “high” of being awarded an OBE, before being diagnosed with breast cancer on the same day.

She said: “You’re often taught that if something good happens to you, something bad happens, to slap you back.
“I haven’t been on a world cruise, which is what a lot of social media has been saying. It hasn’t been a world cruise, it has been a fight against breast cancer.“
“Five months later, I am still not at the end of that journey, but I am well enough to return to work.
“I don’t have any advice for people because I’m still going through it. I’m well enough to return to work but I had a full mastectomy.
“This is the first time I’ve talked about it so it’s quite difficult. The first operation I had was nine hours long. I don’t remember it, I was in and out.
“It was nine hours of removal and rebuild, that took a long time to get over. I then had a lumpectomy just to make sure they can trace the travel if the cancer has moved at all. Luckily I don’t think they did [track any].”

Anne explained how she is still taking every day as it comes for now.
She continued: “I’ve also had a lot of radiotherapy, which I found very hard. It has been a journey.
“I am not pretending for a minute I am extraordinary because I am fully aware that one in seven women in this country are going through what I’ve just gone through and I don’t have any advice to give, I just have empathy.”