showbiz gossip straight to your inbox with the Daily Star's FREE newsletterFirst Dates bartender Merlin Griffiths has been diagnosed with bowel cancer - after receiving the shock news from doctors six weeks ago.Dad Merlin, 46, is best known as the barman who greets singletons at the bar on the Channel 4 dating show, and now faces a year of treatment for the cancer.It comes after doctors informed him he has a 75% chance of living beyond five years.However, he has revealed he is determined that he "won't let it get the better" of him.Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, he recalled the moment he had to explain his cancer diagnosis to his seven-year-old daughter Alix.She apparently asked him if it was bad, to which he responded that although it is.
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