United Kingdom, July 25 -- Noddy Holder was resigned to dying after he was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer.

The Slade star was told he had just six months to live back in 2018 and he left his wife Suzan to break the bad news to their grown-up children because he was making inappropriate jokes about his imminent demise.

He told The Times newspaper: "Even though [my kids] were all grown up when I got diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in 2018, I had to let Suzan break the news to them.

"They'd only given me six months to live and I knew I'd start cracking jokes, which probably wasn't the best way to handle it: 'Don't bother getting me a birthday card this year!'

"I'm not good at taking things too seriously. I started the chemo but figu...