The 86-year-old, who has portrayed beloved Ramsay Street stalwart Harold Bishop intermittently since 1987, received his diagnosis – a cancer known as pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma – last year.
Neighbours legend Ian Smith has said he’s ‘lived the most privileged life’ following a terminal cancer diagnosis.
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‘I found out a few months back that I have cancer,’ he told 10 News First at the beginning of December.
‘I rang my agent and said: “I give you permission to tell your friends that you knew me”, and he said: “God, I was hoping they wouldn’t tell you.”‘.
