{"id":525033,"date":"2026-04-11T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525033\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:08:17","slug":"strictly-star-reveals-abnormalities-detected-during-screening-in-health-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525033\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly star reveals \u2018abnormalities\u2019 detected during screening in health update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:The Independent;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"The Independent\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"271\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ae90c5b0-7c98-11ed-befe-1be805a50c91.png\"\/><\/a>Sat, 11 April 2026 at 6:00 am UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b13a02d65002b9c797b3d7d5283ab01a.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Strictly star reveals \u2018abnormalities\u2019 detected during screening in health update<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/strictly-come-dancing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Strictly Come Dancing;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Strictly Come Dancing<\/a> star has opened up on his health struggles as he shared the results of a \u201cscary\u201d recent checkup.<\/p>\n<p>Iwan Thomas, who appeared on the BBC show back in 2015, told his followers on Wednesday (8 April) that he had initially ignored a letter from the NHS for a bowel screening before they sent a follow-up. \u201cThey said \u2018do the test, do it\u2019,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>The former Olympian said that some \u201cabnormalities\u201d were found and he went to the hospital for a colonoscopy where they discovered three growths. \u201cOne was big and didn\u2019t look great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then shared what his doctor told him following his biopsy results. \u201cTheir words were \u2018luckily you came in when you did, this could have been very different.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, 11 April 2026 at 6:00 am UTC Strictly star reveals \u2018abnormalities\u2019 detected during screening in health update&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[182289,6491,96,102,182288,1598,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-525033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-biopsy-results","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-health","tag-iwan-thomas","tag-strictly-come-dancing","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525033","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=525033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}