This Morning star with 'weeks to live' says he's turned down treatment

The ‘hairdresser to the stars' who 'might not marque Christmas' said chemotherapy could springiness him different period but 'I can’t look immoderate much of that poison'

A This Morning regular Trevor Sorbie has ‘weeks to live’ aft helium turned down chemotherapy attraction which ‘might person fixed him different month’ helium has said. The ‘hairdresser to the stars’, 76, past period said helium has terminal bowel cancer, which has present dispersed to his liver.

In an interrogation with the Times today helium said chemo mightiness springiness him different period “but I can’t look immoderate much of that poison. When I asked a caregiver if I’d inactive beryllium present astatine Christmas, she said, ‘We don’t know, Trevor’.” And that annoyed me. I’ve got crab successful my body, but not successful here. My encephalon is my motor and I’ll spell erstwhile I’m ready.”

Mr Sorbie, who has styled the hairsbreadth of radical including the Queen and Helen Mirren, said astatine the interrogation that helium hadn;’t slept successful 3 days partially owed to steroids, which arsenic good arsenic reducing symptom and inflammation origin “mad insomnia”.

He chopped the hairsbreadth of Adam Ant, Bryan Ferry, George Harrison and Paul McCartney, the Beach Boys, Kylie Minogue, Grace Jones and Robbie Williams, not to notation Lorraine Kelly

Trevor archetypal spoke astir his diagnosis which began erstwhile helium experienced terrible bleeding, prompting him to sojourn the doctor. He recounted: “I mislaid a batch of humor 1 nighttime and was unusually disturbed truthful went to hospital. They told maine I had bowel crab and I had a small panic attack. I looked astatine Carole [his wife] and she looked astatine me, we were some speechless, didn’t cognize what to say. So I went and had a large gin and tonic.”

In 2009, helium gave up salon enactment to absorption connected his charity, My New Hair, which helium acceptable up aft cutting a wig for his sister-in-law, Jackie, who was having chemotherapy for bony cancer. He has taught thousands of hairdressers not lone to chopped wigs, but however to pass with radical who are astatine the extremity of their lives.

Trevor paid tribute to his woman Carole who has been “Florence Nightingale and Mother Teresa rolled into one”. It was Carole who called an ambulance 1 nighttime successful 2019 aft helium began bleeding heavily. He said helium didn;’t person symptoms earlier isolated from diarrhoea and constipation helium had experienced for a fewer months, which helium had ignored.

Surgety removed a tumour from his bowel - and helium was told determination was a 5 per cent accidental of it coming backmost and unluckily it did. Speaking astir his hopes helium said: “I privation to unrecorded each time enjoying what I’ve got and making the astir of it.

Sorbie intends to dice astatine home, though not rather yet, and does not privation a funeral. “Too upsetting. When the clip comes my ashes volition beryllium interred with Carole’s and our small dog. “But I’m going to defy aesculapian science,” helium insists. “If the crab reaches my brain, past I’ll judge it, but until then, I’m successful charge, and I’m going connected my terms.”

Speaking connected This Morning past period helium said: “I had a caregiver travel circular the different time to measure maine and arsenic I asked ‘Will I marque Christmas?’ She said ‘I don’t cognize Trevor’. I said ‘I damn good will. The encephalon rules the body. The bosom plays a large portion arsenic good but that is the engine. Because I’ve got a foundation I’ve helped galore women done cancer, cutting wigs for them. People grip it successful antithetic ways.”

The NHS says connected Bowel Cancer Symptoms:

• Most radical who are yet diagnosed with bowel crab person 1 of the pursuing combinations of symptoms:
• a persistent alteration successful bowel wont that causes them to spell to the toilet much often and walk looser stools, usually unneurotic with humor connected oregon successful their stools
• a persistent alteration successful bowel wont without humor successful their stools, but with abdominal pain
• blood successful the stools without different haemorrhoid symptoms, specified arsenic soreness, discomfort, pain, itching oregon a lump hanging down extracurricular the backmost passage
• abdominal pain, discomfort oregon bloating ever provoked by eating, sometimes resulting successful a simplification successful the magnitude of nutrient eaten and value loss

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