First Dates star Merlin Griffiths appears to have been discharged from hospital just days after going under the knife. Merlin, 46, was tragically diagnosed with bowel cancer last year, but refused to let the illness get the better of him.
Over the weekend the father-of-one shared a snap from his hospital bed where he said that while he had some “aches and pains”, he was officially tumour-free.
Since then, Merlin has been discharged from hospital just days after his life-saving surgery. Sharing another selfie of himself surrounded by blue skies, he wrote to his 63,000 Instagram followers: “And breathe.
6 days, start to finish. Now for real #cancer recovery. I've had open laparotomies before and the recovery was 6 weeks in hospital before robotic surgery!!