Blowing out his 50th-birthday candles during a sunshine holiday with his wife and three adorable sons, Jonnie Irwin is counting his blessings as he celebrates a milestone he never expected to reach.
Exactly a year after the TV presenter revealed that he had terminal lung cancer and had two years earlier been given six months to live, Jonnie defied the odds again to spend his birthday last Saturday on Spain’s Costa del Sol, where he has been swimming, playing football with his boys and enjoying meals out.
“I never thought I’d be here for this, so I’m in this exclusive interview as he shares photos from his break with wife Jessica, 41, and sons Rex, four, and three-year-old twins Rafa and Cormac.