{"id":446853,"date":"2023-01-03T09:37:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T09:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=446853"},"modified":"2023-01-07T08:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T08:24:14","slug":"rhod-gilbert-the-cancer-is-on-my-mind-24-7-but-there-is-humour-in-it-definitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/rhod-gilbert-the-cancer-is-on-my-mind-24-7-but-there-is-humour-in-it-definitely","title":{"rendered":"Rhod Gilbert: The cancer is on my mind 24\/7 but there is humour in it definitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Rhod Gilbert has said he is committed to using his experience of cancer in his next stand-up shows, having written 250 pages of material. The 54-year-old Welshman announced in July that he had stage four cancer and was being treated at the Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff , where he had been a fundraising patron before the diagnosis. He recently postponed a string of January tour shows after discovering he required additional surgery for gallstones and recurring gallbladder infections. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rhod Gilbert (@rhodgilbert) Gilbert told the Guardian in his first national newspaper interview since the diagnosis: &#8220;It does feel weird. I don&#8217;t know how much to talk about the cancer. I haven&#8217;t really worked out what to say. &#8220;I&#8217;m more than happy to talk about it but I haven&#8217;t had time to process it at all.&#8221; Gilbert spent years confronting life&#8217;s mild irritants through his comedy, such as service stations and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Rhod Gilbert has said he is committed to using his experience of cancer in his next stand-up shows, having written 250 pages of material.The 54-year-old Welshman announced in July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}