On this morning’s “Live! With Regis and Kelly,” television personality Bryant Gumbel, who has been filling in for Regis Philbin as co-host of the morning talk show, disclosed that he had surgery on his lung two months ago to remove a tumor.
After re-introducing Gumbel as her temporary co-host, Kelly Ripa said Gumbel had revealed something backstage that made her “almost faint.”
Ripa had been discussing her excitement about working out on the show with guest Julianne Hough of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” when Gumbel said he could not participate, explaining he had a note from his doctor.
“It’s nothing to run from, it’s just that I’ve not made it public,” Gumbel said. “Two months ago I had cancer surgery.”
“I kept it private,” Gumbel said, noting that he had told only a few people, and had chosen not to disclose his treatment, even to producers at his current regular post on HBO’s “Real Sports.”
“It’s nothing to hide from,” Gumbel added. “They opened up my chest, they took a malignant tumor and they took part of my lung and they took some other goodies. And the pathology on most of the stuff had been benign, but enough aggressive cells had escaped the tumor that it warranted some treatment and I went through that and it’s done now.”
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