Adele Roberts spent a night this week with her hand pressed to her stomach, keeping her own intestine in place. She told her Instagram followers about it the next day.
“Audrey, (my stoma) prolapsed again, been up all night holding my intestine in,” she wrote. “Tummy is sore but at least my stoma is staying in my body for now.”
The presenter, a former I’m a Celebrity campmate, blamed the pressure from a bowel prep and a colonoscopy. “It forces my intestine out of my stomach wall,” she said. She posted the update after finishing a fitness challenge that raised money for cancer research.
How she got here
Roberts first noticed cancer symptoms while on the ITV show and confirmed a bowel cancer diagnosis in 2021. She had chemotherapy, then an operation to remove the tumour. A stoma bag was fitted in 2022, and the same year she announced she was cancer-free.
The treatment left marks. Speaking on the Monday Mile podcast, she said chemotherapy “really affected my skin” and took her fingerprints. She could not use touch screens, her phone or self-checkouts. The bottoms of her feet looked as if they had been burnt, and black spots appeared on her tongue.
The neck lump
Last November she revealed that a “concerning lump” had been taken out of her neck. She had noticed it at the start of summer. It would not go away, and it grew into what she called “a bit of a monster”. Nobody knew what it was and it was not responding to treatment, so a specialist removed it.
She posted pictures in a hospital gown. The lump was benign, and she said she was “absolutely buzzing”. She also admitted it had been worrying her for months. “Thank you NHS,” she wrote. “What a week so far – it’s only Wednesday and I’ve already had a camera up my bum, an enema (that I thought would NEVER END) and some test results that I’ve been worried about since summer.”
She told followers: “With my recent health troubles and knowing you can never take anything for granted… it has been playing on my mind.”
