Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist Allan Finnegan has revealed he has untreatable cancer and has been given 12 months to live. The Baptist minister reached the semi-finals of the ITV competition back in 2020 after impressing judges with his stand-up act.
Two years after his appearance on the show, he decided to get a doctor’s opinion after constantly feeling as though he had something in his eye. Much to his shock, health professionals determined he had tumours in both eyes.
One was diagnosed as ocular melanoma, a rare form of cancer that affects only around 850 people in the UK each year, while the other was deemed not so serious. After treatment, the father-of-two was told the cancer had spread and was now untreatable.
He explained to the Liverpool Echo: “I was treated just after Christmas that year. It went well but the biopsy looked at my genes – if you’ve got a certain type of gene, there’s quite a high chance of cancer returning, and when it does, it usually is in the liver.
“In December last year, something showed up. I had to go back. It confirmed it had spread. I went to a consultant just after Christmas. He confirmed it was untreatable.” Allan has since been given the life expectancy of 12 months.
Recalling the moment he shared the heartbreaking news with his wife Joyce, daughters Beccy and Rachael and his mum Linda, he told the publication: “Watching my wife and kids cry, seeing other people cry, that makes me more emotional.”
Maintaining his humour however, he joked: “When I think about it, I realise I need to put more things in place, like decorating the hall.”
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