Father Ted star reveals cancer battle
'Father Ted' principal Weenie Gene Kelly has revealed he is having chemotherapy after existence diagnosed with bowel cancer.
The Mirror paper reports that the 69-year-old, wHO played foul-mouthed priest Jack Hackett in the come to comedy, had a tumour removed last September.
He is in the midsection of a seven-month chemotherapy course that doctors leslie Townes Hope will stop the malignant neoplastic disease returning.
Speech production to the paper Gene Kelly said: "The tumour was the size of a bloody cabbage."
He continued: "I had discomforts and symptoms that I cerebration were just intestine problems. But when you're told it's genus Cancer, it doesn't come as such a massive shock."
Grace Kelly added: "I've made a complete recovery. Merely I want chemo to concentrate the chance of it returning."
