Johnnie Walker, a BBC Radio 2 legend, has admitted doctors have warned him he could “die at any moment”.
The presenter, who has worked for the BBC since 1969, leads The Radio 2 Rock Show and Sounds of the 70s.
His health has been suffering in recent years, with Johnnie having to undergo a triple heart bypass in 2019.
The following year, he was diagnosed with a condition which impacts his breathing called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
He requires round-the-clock care from his wife Tiggy and has been presenting his radio shows from his Dorest home.
He and his wife recently addressed the possibility of Johnnie dying at any moment in a heartbreaking podcast interview.
Tiggy said on their BBC Sounds podcast: “I’m so tired. Sometimes I find it hard to go on.”
Doctors informed the pair to prepare for Johnny going at any moment, with Tiggy sharing: “It was only by going to the doctors and going on antidepressants that I have kept going, because I was crying every single day and I was overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of everything I had to do.”
Johnnie admitted to having “only a finite amount of time left here in the physical before I pass over”.
He went on to praise his wife for her unconditional love, saying she “lovingly helps me get into bed and gives me a nice kiss good night, and then she has to wonder whether I’m still going to be alive in the morning, which must be pretty hard for her”.
The radio star continued to discuss his wife’s support, reflecting on how she was there for him during his cancer battle in 2006. The pair have been married for 22 years.
Tiggy, who has also suffered cancer, told Express.co.uk at the time: “The idea of chemotherapy simply horrified me because I’d seen how it devastated Johnnie.
“For nine months after his diagnosis with non-Hodgkin lymphoma I was needed 100 per cent.”
Johnnie explained he and Tiggy now sleep in different rooms as he needs to sleep with an oxygen mask “which is quite noisy”.