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Butthole Surfers Drummer Teresa Taylor Dies Aged 60 After Terminal Lung Disease Diagnosis
Teresa Taylor was the drummer for Butthole Surfers (Picture: HoctorDousetaken from YT footage)American rock band the Butthole Surfers announced that drummer Teresa Taylor, also known as Teresa Nervosa, died 'peacefully' aged 60.
Taylor's partner and the band announced her death on June 20 following a diagnosis of terminal lung disease.
'Dear friends and loved ones of Teresa Taylor. I want to let you know the sad news. Teresa passed away clean and sober, peacefully in her sleep, this weekend,' wrote partner Cheryl Curtice on Facebook.
'She was so brave, even in the face of her horrible disease. We were all fortunate to have her beautiful, strong spirit in our lives.'
Taylor is best known for her time as one of the drummers for Buttlehole Surfers and she was a childhood friend of the other drummer, King Coffey.
Curtice added: 'She will be forever missed. We will have a memorial service sometime in the future. I love you, beloved Teresa.'
Taylor was diagnosed with lung disease in 2021(Picture: Marc Broussely/Redferns)'Teresa Taylor passed away peacefully this weekend after a long battle with lung disease. She will live in our hearts forever. RIP, dear friend,' wrote the band on their Twitter account.
With the message a picture of Taylor was shared, which included a cute dog asleep on her lap, called Mark Farner according to the band.
Famed for their hardcore punk rock music and dark comedy gigs, Butthole Surfers were named by Kurt Cobain as creating one of his favourite albums.
Taylor also starred in director Richard Linklater's 1990 film, Slacker, in which she okayed a character called 'Pap smear pusher' who features on the poster.
In a statement to Rolling Stone, Linklater described Taylor as 'a badass drummer and totally unique character'.
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'Smart, funny, energetic – she meant so much to all who knew her. One of the greats.'
She was incredibly close to fellow drummer Coffey, referring to each other as siblings for their similar looks although they weren't related by blood.
In 1989, shortly after leaving the band, Taylor suffered from a brain aneurysm and had to have brain surgery.
She also started to suffer from strobe light-induced seizures around this time.
Throughout the 90s, Taylor worked in a school for the visually impaired and had been working on a memoir about her time in the band.
Her time with Butthole Surfers wasn't over though as she returned to tour with them in 2008, having been steadily recording music for years with the band's lead singer Gibby Haynes.
In November 2021, Taylor announced that she had been diagnosed with end-stage lung disease, followed by a post the next year saying her death was 'imminent'.
She added that she had 'received a loving message from Paul' and 'spoke on the phone with King and Gibby'.
Taylor concluded her post with: 'It's all been a blast….Ciao.'
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A Place In The Sun's Jonnie Irwin Recalls Telling Wife Jessica Of His Terminal Cancer Diagnosis
Jonnie Irwin has tearfully recalled the moment he told wife Jessica Holmes about his terminal cancer diagnosis, two months after she gave birth to their twins.
The A Place In The Sun presenter, 49, has been bravely battling the disease since it was discovered in his lungs back in 2020. It has since spread to his brain.
Speaking on the AIG Life's The OneChat podcast Jonnie, who shares his three sons Rex, three, and twins Rafa and Corma, two, with his wife, described it was the 'hardest thing' he ever had to do.
'I can remember it like it was yesterday. And I've got no memory since my whole brain therapy. But that bloody memory stays in my head'.
Going on to say 'And it is brutal. All I can remember is hugging her and just saying, "Sorry"'.
Heartbreak: Jonnie Irwin, 49, has tearfully recalled the moment he told wife Jessica Holmes about his terminal cancer diagnosis, two months after she gave birth to twins (pictured together earlier this year)
Ill health: The A Place In The Sun presenter, 49, has been bravely battling the disease since it was discovered in his lungs back in 2020 . It has since spread to his brain (pictured last month)
Elsewhere in the chat Jonnie revealed he wanted others to 'learn from his mistakes' after he was forced to continue working following his diagnosis.
Saying: 'I didn't take critical illness insurance out and therefore I had to keep working, without work, I've got no means of paying the bills'.
'And if I had taken the critical illness insurance out, that could've covered my outgoings and I probably could've told the world [about his condition] a lot sooner.'
He went on to say that he would have had two years of 'living a more open life style' if he had thought about such eventualities and hoped to help others not make the same mistake.
'I think at the time I just thought I can better spend that money elsewhere. Where I don't know. I've not frittered it away. Maybe because I know what benefits it would have had, it just seems ridiculous that I didn't'.
Going on to say: 'I thought I was doing well just taking out life insurance. It's one positive thing and helped me a great deal in getting a financial position in life to know my wife and my boys are more secure. But how I wish I'd taken out that extra cover.'
Jonnie revealed he kept his terminal cancer battle a secret for two years in order to keep working to provide for his family.
After going public with his diagnosis last year, he was let go from the property programme because they were no longer able to insure him when he was filming abroad.
Father: Speaking on the AIG Life's The OneChat podcast Jonnie, who shares his three sons Rex, three, and twins Rafa and Corma, two, with his wife, described it was the 'hardest thing' he ever had to do
Brave: The A Place In The Sun presenter has been bravely battling the disease since it was discovered in his lungs back in 2020 . It has since spread to his brain
He explained: 'The only reason I kept it secret is because I've got to earn, I've got to feed my babies, pay the bills.
'And as soon as you say you've got cancer, people just write you off.
I had to live with it as a secret. It was really difficult living with such a massive cloud above me and pretending to everyone else.
'For the first year and a half I could work. Unfortunately, one of the companies claimed they couldn't insure and didn't renew my contract. It left a massive hole in my income.'
He continued: 'I felt like I'd been thrown on the scrapheap. They'd recruited within a week and then I could see some else doing my job.'
Secret: Jonnie revealed he kept his terminal cancer battle a secret for two years in order to keep working to provide for his family (Jonnie pictured on A Place in the Sun in 2019)
Jonnie said it was when he was hiding from photo shots and taking selfies with fans that he decided to speak out about his terminal diagnosis.
He said: 'The day came when I decided I'm going to tell the world and I just thought as well I might get some money for the family.
'It's been a massive weight off my shoulders. The day I came out and told the world I have terminal cancer is the day I started living again.
'I started being Jonnie Irwin again. I actually feel alive.'
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Born in 1973, Jonnie Irwin grew up in Bitteswell, Leicestershire, and attended Lutterworth Grammar School and Community College before becoming an estate agent.
In 2004, Irwin was selected from hundreds of applicants alongside co-presenter Jasmine Harman to present Channel 4's show A Place In The Sun - Home Or Away. The property programme was a surprise hit and syndicated widely. Irwin also regularly presents the BBC's Escape To The Country and To Buy Or Not To Buy.
In January 2011, Sky 1 broadcast Irwin's own show called Dream Lives for Sale, in which he helped people leave their lives in the UK in order buy their dream business.
Later that year, he started a new series The Renovation Game which aired on weekday mornings on Channel 4.
Outside of presenting, he is also a commercial director for Judicare, which describes itself as a 'specialist law firm providing clients with legal advice on all matters related to overseas property'.
Irwin married Jessica Holmes in September 2016. Together they have three sons and lived in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire before moving to Newcastle.
On November 13, Irwin was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. He told Hello magazine: 'I don't know how long I have left, but I try to stay positive and my attitude is that I'm living with cancer, not dying from it.'
AdvertisementJonnie Irwin Recalls 'devastating Moment' He Told Wife His Cancer Was Terminal
Jonnie Irwin recalls 'devastating moment' he told wife his cancer was terminal (Jonnie Irwin/Instagram)
A Place in the Sun's Jonnie Irwin has shared the heartbreaking moment he told his wife Jessica Holmes about his terminal cancer diagnosis.
The Leicestershire born star was given just six months to live when he was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer – which has since spread to his brain – in August 2020, and publicly shared his prognosis in November.
Previously, he recalled the moment he knew something was wrong after experiencing blurred vision while driving through Italy on the Channel 4 show.
After returning home from filming in 2020, he was given just months to live as medics revealed that the cancer had spread to his brain.
Irwin has now recalled the devastating moment his told his other half, with whom he shares children Rex, four, and three-year-old twins Rafa and Cormac with, about his diagnosis.
He told Hello! Magazine: "I had to go home and tell my wife, who was looking after our babies, that she was on her own pretty much.
"That was devastating. All I could do was apologise to her. I felt so responsible."
The much-loved presenter recently shared how he travelled to Turkey for treatment, but the medical procedure caused irreversible damage to his liver.
Irwin said: "It's blocked in a place they can't operate on, so there's no point fighting the cancer elsewhere if the liver's not working. It's a cruel blow. It can happen at any time. I'm here to stop it for as long as possible."
As he continues to battle the disease, the TV star revealed he has also spent some time in a hospice to deal with the agonising pain his cancer is giving him – and has found some solace being there.
Recently, the presenter was left in tears as he revealed how he and wife Jessica, 40, have only spoken about the reality of his prognosis a couple of times after he was left at "death's door twice" due to his cancer.
He shared on the OneChat podcast with AIG life: "The programme is to try and remain positive. Positive for me is burying my head in the sand a bit.
"Jess and I don't talk about it much and we've been close to death's door a few times now. Twice at least.
"Apart from those times we've not really talked about it. Financially we're slowly getting stuff in place, transferring account details and putting stuff in her name but being positive [is] such an important factor. I do that by not talking about it too much."
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