Overview

• The children's TV veteran said he was diagnosed in August 2022 and completed three months of daily radiotherapy starting that September.
• He told The Mirror he had kept the illness private and now considers himself through it, with yearly check-ups.
• Prostate Cancer UK welcomed his openness as raising vital awareness and urged men to use its online risk checker.
• Ball remains professionally active and described a short daily exercise routine and simple diet that help him stay well.
• He reflected on friends Harry Secombe and Bob Monkhouse who died of the disease, and noted his ex-wife Julia Peckham’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2024.