Jonnie Irwin and his wife are on a road vacation, but things aren’t going so well.
The 49-year-old A Place in the Sun broadcaster has four-year-old Rex and two-year-old twins Rafa and Cormac with long-term wife Jess.
His wife has been by his side since he declared publicly in November that he had terminal cancer.
However, Jonnie decided not to inform his children for fear of ‘confusing’ them, so he’s instead concentrated on making memories as a family.
Making the most of their summer vacation, the family of four hopped in the vehicle and drove for five hours.
Unfortunately, with three little children in the rear, it hasn’t been a tranquil journey.
Jonnie posted a photo to Instagram with a humorously anguished look while his wife drove and their youngsters ran about in the rear.
He wrote in the caption: ‘5 hours on and off in car with the boys. Each one with a tablet/screen without headphones! Acoustic hell! #roadtrip’
His followers were full of sympathy, with one fellow parent joking: ‘Can literally taste the pain in this photo’.
‘I can see the pained look in both your faces 😂 xxx’, another laughed.
‘Sorry but that made me laugh. We’ve all been there 😂’, another added.
Jonnie’s well-deserved vacation comes after months of hard work on his Newcastle home’s improvements.
The host knows a thing or two about real estate, and he’s been putting his knowledge to good use, remodelling a living space and now embarking on a new endeavour.
While it is still early days, the TV personality has huge plans for the two-story home, including tearing off the porch and opening up the hallway.
He updated his followers via Instagram video, with astonished supporters praising him for his ‘passion,’ especially given his cancer diagnosis.
Jonnie, who had a lung tumour spread to his brain, recently admitted to feeling “a lot weaker.”
However, he has continued to use his platform to share his experiences, and he recently appeared on television to discuss palliative care.
He explained to Morning Live what counsel he would provide to those in a similar circumstance.
‘First of all, embrace it,’ he said, explaining that his first experience of palliative care came when he was invited to do a blood transfusion in a hospice as a day patient, where he was placed in a ‘lovely room’ with a table full of biscuits.
‘I implore people to check out the hospice – if you’ve got the choice of using it, then use it,’ he stated.
‘You have a right to a choice of a hospice if you so wish, I would encourage people to at least explore that option, because it’s not this doom and gloom operation that you might think it was.’
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Source My Celebrity Life.
