However, he went on to praise Penny, as he told the panel: “I had this marvellous women by my side,” adding you’ve “got to work and not dwell on it”.
Back in October, Rod’s wife was left in tears as she opened up about her husband’s “aggressive diagnosis” on the panel show.
“With Rod, it was an aggressive one,” she explained as she detailed the extent of where the cancer had reached.
Reflecting on the news which they discovered back in 2016, she said: “It’s obvious I was going to get upset, it’s emotional. We kept it quiet for almost two-and-a-half years now. The positive news is that we caught it early enough.”
Loose Women airs weekdays at 12.30pm on ITV.
