ASTROLOGER and TV star Russell Grant has thanks a doctor from Ysbyty Gwynedd after successful surgery to remove a brain tumour.

The former Strictly Come Dancing star, who lives in Maentwrog, Gwynedd, underwent surgery for brain cancer shortly before Christmas in December 2022.

He publicly thanked those in healthcare that had helped him during this time, including Dr Anthony Wilton, an Ysbyty Gwynedd doctor who specialises in Internal (General) Medicine and Endocrinology.

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Mr Grant, 72, said via his Twitter account: “Before Christmas I had a brain tumour removed by the A-Team Prof Pathmanban, Dr Bhalla, Dr Kearney, the caring nurses and Vicky Walsh of Alex Hospital Manchester and Dr Wilton YG Bangor I’m now into recovery. Thank you all.”

Announcing the update on Twitter on the first day of Brain Tumour Awareness Month, Grant shared a smiling picture of himself sporting a blue Wealdstone FC shirt.

In a subsequent tweet, he stated he “didn’t want a fuss” during the surgery – noting that he had already lost his late mother Jo, who died in 2021 from Covid.

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The Brain Tumour Charity wrote on Twitter: “All the best Russell from all of us at The Charity & all our supporters”, while the Alzheimer’s Society also wished him a “speedy recovery”.

In December, the former Strictly Come Dancing contestant told the Mirror that he had a lump removed from his pituitary gland in a five-hour surgery.

He also said the growth had threatened to “blank out” his optic nerve.