Idle feeling 'lucky'

ACTOR and comedian Eric Idle has said he feels lucky “every single day” after surviving pancreatic cancer.

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Idle, 82, revealed in 2022 that he had received an early diagnosis and been successfully treated for the illness.

In a Letter To My Younger Self for the Big Issue, the Monty Python star said: “I miss a lot of people. Great people like Mike Nichols.

“I will find myself thinking of a funny line and thinking, you must tell Mike that. Or Jonathan Miller. So many of my heroes have gone, like Robin Williams. I still kind of occasionally speak to Billy Connolly, but I really miss him.