Overview

• Seacrest emotionally disclosed his father’s battle with metastatic prostate cancer during a July 21 broadcast of On Air with Ryan Seacrest.
• Gary Lee Seacrest contracted pneumonia during chemotherapy and endured an ICU stay where doctors considered an emergency life-or-death surgery.
• His pneumonia has now cleared and he returned home in Atlanta under full-time care after being released earlier this month.
• The family is preparing for another chemotherapy cycle to address the persistent cancer, with his mother Connie, a cancer survivor, also recuperating at home.
• On-air colleagues such as Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos have publicly sent messages of love and encouragement to the Seacrest family.