Dermot Murnaghan issues plea in first live interview since stage four cancer diagnosis

Health & Fitness
27 Aug 2025 • 10:46 PM MYT
The Independent
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Dermot Murnaghan has opened up about his stage four prostate cancer diagnosis, calling it a “bolt from the blue”.

Speaking to Sky NewsAnna Jones on Wednesday (27 August), the former presenter said that he “foolishly” forgot to get a test despite “speaking to people about this very issue for years”.

Mr Murnaghan, who shared his diagnosis earlier this year, said he had every intention to go for a screening, but “life intervened”.

“So what happened was at the end of last year I fell very ill on a foreign holiday and kind of rushed back here to get treated by a wonderful health service and was diagnosed, a real bolt from the blue."