Slade singer Noddy Holder has been fighting throat cancer since 2017. This terrible news was announced by the 77-year-old's wife Suzan in the couple's local newspaper, as the Merry Xmas Everybody icon continues life-extending chemotherapy. "Five years ago we were given the devastating news that he had oesophageal cancer and only had six months to live," she wrote. "I’m sorry if that comes as a bit of a shock; it came as a total bombshell to us too.
We coped with it the only way we could, by hunkering down, sticking together and doing everything we could to survive it. "We told only immediate close family and friends and I will never apologise to those we did not confide in, only to those who were forced to suffer pain and anguish alongside us as we attempted to navigate our way through this new and horrifying world.They held our hands and kept our confidence.
We truly found out who our real friends are." Please check back regularly for the latest on this developing story as it is updated in real time here.
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