On tomorrow's front page: 'Place In The Sun axed me after I got cancer,' says distraught presenter Jonnie Irwin
“As soon as I told A Place In The Sun about my diagnosis they paid me for the rest of the season but didn’t renew my contract. They knew I wanted to carry on.Jonnie has not stopped working throughout the months of gruelling treatment, filming forHe said of his axing from the Channel 4 show 'Within two weeks someone else was on TV doing my job.
“They said, ‘We don’t think we can get the insurance’, not ‘We can’t get the insurance’, but, ‘We don’t think . . . ’ That broke my heart and affected my“Within two weeks someone else was on TV doing my job. I just feel I earned a bit more from them after 18 years. That was my first job in TV and it was special to me.and to have that taken away from me . . . that wage, that purpose . . . as if the cancer wasn’t bad enough.
“It’s cruel,” he said. “But I’ve tried to resist thoughts of why me.” He was with a friend when he got the news and said: “He saw me visibly exhale.
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