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Adele Roberts - 'After battling colon cancer, it's a privilege to be alive'

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Radio presenter Adele Roberts is bundled up in a hat and gloves, gracefully gliding across an ice rink as she trains for ITV’s Dancing on Ice.

With a huge smile on her face as she hugs her professional partner Mark Hanretty, the brave broadcaster is worlds away from where she was two years ago - when she underwent treatment for stage two bowel cancer.

Now, three years after her heartbreaking diagnosis, Adele, 44, is clear of the disease and thriving - and ready to take on the huge ITV show. “I wanted to do this to reclaim my body after what it’s been through,” she says. “I feel like it’s allowing me to take back who I am again.” Adele rose to fame on Big Brother’s 2002 series before moving into radio, having presented on Capital, Hits Radio and BBC Radio 1.

Just a year before her cancer diagnosis, she made radio history as the first Black woman to host the Radio 1 Breakfast show, filling in for Greg James.

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