“Nice to see him back on our screens!” Ground Force star Tommy Walsh, 66, stuns Pointless viewers with his slimmed down looks… after battling throat cancer
He announced in March that he had recovered from throat cancer.
And on Saturday night, Tommy Walsh, 66, shocked Celebrity Pointless viewers with his slimmed down looks.
The Ground Force star wore a burgundy polo shirt and straight-leg jeans as he appeared on the game show’s special New Year’s Eve edition.
Wow! Tommy Walsh, 66, shocked Celebrity Pointless viewers with his slimmed-down looks on Saturday night
Tommy appeared in the celebrity addition of Pointless alongside Tim Key, Alex Horne, Eboni Usoro-Brown, Sharron Davies, Rhea Bailey, Diarmuid Gavin and Natalie Jamieson.
And viewers were quick to take to social media to take note of how different the gardening expert looks after losing a significant amount of weight.
One person tweeted: “Damn it Tommy Walsh lost heaps of weight #mindlesscelebrities.”
Another adoring fan of the show wrote, “Nice to see Tommy Walsh back on our screens.”
Looking good: The Ground Force star wore a burgundy polo shirt and straight-leg jeans as he appeared on the game show’s special New Year’s Eve edition
In March 2022, Tommy announced he had recovered from throat cancer while lending his celebrity status to raise the profile of an NHS campaign to promote cancer screening.
He recalled: “I went to my GP for another issue and while I was there he discovered this lump in my throat which he was a bit worried about.
“He said maybe it was nothing other than that he would rather I go and have it checked and unfortunately it turned out to be cancer.
“I had to go in immediately and have surgery to remove it. I am now fully recovered and even playing soccer again!
“If something in your body doesn’t feel right, contact your GP practice and make an appointment. Whatever the outcome, the NHS is here to help.”
Fan Response: Viewers were quick to take to social media to take note of how different the gardening expert looks after losing a significant amount of weight
TV star: In March 2022, Tommy announced he had recovered from throat cancer while lending his celebrity status to an NHS campaign to promote cancer screening (pictured in 2012)
In 2002, Tommy became scared of breast cancer when he found two lumps on his chest.
The father of three immediately sought medical advice and although his doctor said it was probably nothing, Tommy was sent to have the lumps checked.
The TV builder told The Mirror at the time: “I was a bit of a guy about the whole thing. I just buried myself in my work and then drove to the day surgery where the knots were removed under general anesthesia.
“It was only then that I realized that this could actually be serious and I could have breast cancer like my relatives.”
Luckily for Tommy, test results showed the lumps were benign, but he confessed it was “a little wake-up call.”
Tommy rose to fame when he joined the BBC television gardening program Ground Force in 1997 alongside Alan Titchmarsh.
Formerly: Tommy rose to fame when he joined the BBC TV gardening program Ground Force with Alan Titchmarsh in 1997 (pictured in 2002)