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Noddy: Jokes were my defence against grim prognosis
Birmingham Mail
|August 04, 2025
NODDY Holder was resigned to dying after he was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer.
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The Slade star was told he had just six months to live back in 2018 and he left his wife Suzan to break the bad news to their grownup children because he was making inappropriate jokes about his imminent demise.
He told The Times newspaper: “Even though my kids were all grown up when I got diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in 2018, I had to let Suzan break the news to them.
This story is from the August 04, 2025 edition of Birmingham Mail.
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