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BBC’s Nick Owen breaks down in tears on air over son’s emotional message amid his cancer battle

BBC presenter Nick Owen got emotional live on air over his son's emotional message amid his cancer diagnosis.

To honor the 76-year-old, his BBC Midlands Today colleague Ben Godfrey read some messages that caused Nick to get teary. “And I’m so grateful that people have responded to the message in the first place about prostate cancer because that’s such an important thing,” Nick continued. During an appearance on the Deadly Silent Podcast, Nick admitted that telling his four children was “difficult” and “emotional.”

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