{"id":482553,"date":"2026-03-18T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482553\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:38:08","slug":"newcastle-rock-singer-ginger-wildheart-reveals-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482553\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle rock singer Ginger Wildheart reveals cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rockband frontman Ginger Wildheart has revealed he has been given three years to live following a cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The singer, who fronts Newcastle rock band The Wildhearts, is suffering from a rare form of cancer called Mantle Cell Lymphoma, but said he has refused treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His condition came to light during the band&#8217;s More Satanic Rites tour in December, when Wildheart was forced to take short breaks from stage due to severe pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No misery please, positivity all the way,&#8221; he said, in a statement on social media. &#8220;I&#8217;ve lived the life of 10 men and will die with dignity.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rockband frontman Ginger Wildheart has revealed he has been given three years to live following a cancer diagnosis.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-482553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}