Slade's Noddy Holder says he has "lasted the course" after cancer battle

10 December 2024, 10:02

Noddy Holder was given just six months to live five years ago.

Noddy Holder has opened up about his current state of health after his battle with oesophageal cancer.

The former Slade frontman revealed last year that he had been given just six months to live when he was diagnosed with the disease five years ago.

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Thankfully, Noddy was admitted to the Christie Hospital in Manchester and received a new treatment there.

"I did have oesophageal cancer and that was five years ago and, at the moment, they're still keeping a check on me," he has now told Sky News.

"I'm on a level playing field at the moment after at the time being diagnosed with six months to live. So I've lasted the course, as it were."

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In the same interview, Noddy's wife Suzan also told viewers that her husband woke her up on Christmas morning exactly the way you'd expect.

"When he shouts 'It's Christmas!' in your ear to wake you up on Christmas morning, it's very loud," she said.

"It is a very unusual alarm clock, but it works."

Noddy Holder and Jim Lea haven't performed with Slade since they both left the band in 1992.

The current incarnation of Slade only features Dave Hill from its founding lineup after Don Powell was axed a few years ago.

While Noddy has returned to performing, joining Tom Seals and his band on the road, he has ruled out a return to Slade, saying that their old squabbles seemed to resurface every time they had a business meeting after the split.