'It's so ironic' Nick Owen opens up about having cancer at the same time as co-star Anne Diamond

Nick Owen is being supported by Anne Diamond amid his cancer battle.

The 75-year-old broadcaster announced earlier this week that he had been diagnosed with "extensive and aggressive" prostate cancer just weeks after his former 'TV-am' co-host Anne, 68, revealed she was fighting breast cancer.

And he now thinks it is "fantastic" that they both have each other to lean on, years after they formed a successful partnership on-screen.

Speaking on 'BBC Breakfast', he said: "We have been cajoling each other. It is fantastic [to have one another at this time] but it's just so ironic that she and I, who are forever associated as a partnership professionally, both have the quintessentially male and female cancer."

Nick previously explained that while he initially wasn't "too worried" about his checkup, his doctor urged him to have a scan, and he won't forget the "killer date" he received his diagnosis.

Speaking on 'BBC Midlands Today': "I went to a specialist, he wasn't too worried because my figures weren't that high. But he decided I ought to have a scan and then the scan said there was something dodgy going on, and then he sent me for a biopsy which he did. And the results of that were the killer, on April the 13th, a date which will forever be imprinted on my mind. He told us that it was extensive really and aggressive, and I had prostate cancer full-on, and something needed to be done pretty fast."

In recent years, former 'Loose Women' panellist Anne has been an anchor on GB News, but she has been absent from the channel for over six months and has undergone a double mastectomy.

Revealing her cancer diagnosis, she told the broadcaster: "I haven't been on a world cruise. It's been a fight against breast cancer. That's what it's been. It's been a long journey. And five months later, I'm still not at the end of the journey, but I'm through it enough to come back to work."