Danny Baker Vows To Beat Cancer

TV Presenter and Radio DJ Danny Baker has told his fans he ‘will beat’ the Cancer that has seen him take time off from presenting duties at BBC Radio 5 Live.

Baker became a regular on television in the early 1980s after a successful stint in print journalism. He joined London Weekend Television first in the ‘Youth Department’ before becoming one of the reporters on the Michael Aspel fronted The 6 O’clock Show in 1982.

Nationally TV Hell and TV Heroes saw Baker reach a mainstream BBC audience, programmes he also wrote for. With ITV he presented morning game show, Win, Lose or Draw and again for the BBC a show which surely would now go into a revived TV Hell – Pet’s Win Prizes. Danny’s nonsense approach to presenting also saw him become ‘the face’ of Daz washing powered across their mid-90s advertising campaigns.

In recent times Baker has been more of a behind-the-scenes force writing for programmes rather than appearing on them. While away from the television screens his radio career has been long and successful and when recently Baker ‘suddenly’ vanished from Radio 5 Live listeners became curious to what had happened.

Yesterday it was announced the reason he’d been absent from the BBC was due to the 53-year-old battling Cancer. Today Baker has come out fighting.

Speaking on Facebook he said “Once the quacks have soundly thrashed this thing I shall return like a rare gas as if out of a trap. In the meantime I am watching Tommy Steele box sets and urge you to keep yakking up a storm and laugh extra loud at the incumbents.”

Keeping the mood light Baker also told readers “Yes, radiotherapy – can you beat it? This being so, the old treehouse baggy pants will be donned but sparingly.”