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A BBC Breakfast icon has been living with a brain tumour for 16 years. Fitness guru Diana Moran, a regular contributor to BBC Breakfast and presenter of fitness segments on Breakfast Time before its rebranding in 1989, was known as the Green Goddess due to her signature green leotard.

The 86-year-old has now revealed that she's been "very unwell" recently. She's been living with the tumour after overcoming battles with skin and breast cancer.

Speaking on Best magazine's Suddenly Single podcast, she shared: "I have to say, I have been very unwell for the past six months, on and off, I've been very unwell.

"I've got a brain tumour. It kicked off through another operation that I was having. Possibly the antibiotics that I was given, and everything kicked off, and I thought that my life had come to the end," reports Daily Star.

"Three times, we called ambulances, 999. It was when I was sent home again eventually, from hospital, I had to rest."

She added, "There was no way I could do anything else; I had to have help with stairs, toilet seats, walkers, all sorts of things. I couldn't stand by myself at all. It was very, very frightening."

When asked if she minded discussing the brain tumour, she clarified: "I've had the brain tumour for 16 years. It was discovered when I was doing a run in Hyde Park.

"All those years ago, a charity run, and something went wrong. They took me to hospital and then they found I'd got a brain tumour.

"Okay, I've lived with it perfectly happily, but with this, the death of Robin, the other operation that I had to have, which was for cancers, I had some cancers on my leg, and it was a bit dramatic, because I think I had a reaction to the antibiotics, that's what we think."

Diana explained that medical professionals have ruled out surgery to remove the tumour due to her age, revealing: "Then it seemed to have kicked off the brain as well.

"Since then, I've been backwards and forwards to specialists, it's been decided that at age 87, coming up to, it's too old for a big operation.

"So I'm a bit of an experiment on some drugs at the minute. Let's leave it as that."