Sky Sports News presenter Jo Wilson, 37, announces she has stage 3 cervical cancer

Sky Sports presenter Jo Wilson has revealed she has been diagnosed with stage 3 cervical cancer and is undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment.

The 37-year-old mother-of-one, who has hosted programmes on the sports network since 2015, went for a routine smear test in June and was told there were signs of cancer.

Further tests a month later showed Wilson had 3b cervical cancer that had spread to two of her lymph nodes. 

Wilson, who lives in the Cotswolds with her partner of six years Dan and 23-month old daughter Mabel, told OK! magazine she broke down in tears after receiving the news and asked doctors if she was going to die.

‘I cried while a lovely nurse held my hand,’ she said. ‘Then I cried to Dan, and he was quite shocked because he didn’t really think it would be cancer.

‘You’re desperately hoping there’s a chance it might not be. 

 ‘I said to the doctor “Am I going to die?”

‘You’re not going to die,’ he reassured me. “It’s very treatable, and it’s very curable.”

‘I try to hold onto that, but there are no guarantees. The percentages are still a bit ropey. There’s something like a 70 per cent success rate for this treatment. 

‘So I’ll take that. But you do still think about the fact there’s a 30 per cent chance it won’t work.

‘The lack of control can be quite difficult, because the treatment will either work or it won’t. I’m trying to live in the present and get this through.’