RADIO 2 STAR'S WIFE SAYS SHE'S ALREADY SELLING HIS CLOTHES AS HE BATTLES TERMINAL ILLNESS

As Johnnie Walker continues to battle his terminal illness, his wife Tiggy has revealed they are accepting the reality of his incurable disease and she's already started selling his clothes online.

Tiggy, 63, made an appearance on Jeremy Vine's radio show on Monday and revealed the tragic news that the BBC Radio 2, 79, star has incurable idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

The former television commercials producer admitted the radio personality had been inundated with people getting in touch to send their well-wishes to Johnnie.

He's been presenting his Sunday show Sounds of the 70s for nearly 15 years now and gets nearly two million listeners tuning in each week. Despite now being wheelchair-bound and dependent on an oxygen machine, Johnnie still continues to broadcast from his home in Dorset.

He was initially given two to five years to live by doctors and this August marks the five-year mark, with professionals saying he could die at any moment.

Although they are bracing themselves for the inevitable, the couple have managed to stay in good spirits and have embraced the idea of Johnnie no longer being here.

In an interview with The Telegraph, the pair revealed they already started putting some of his clothes on second hand website Vinted to sell.

Tiggy expressed: "We have a right laugh about it. Some people have got absolute bargains - the other day we sold a lovely Richard James dinner suit for a song."

When asked if he's prepared for what's about to happen, the BBC star divulged: "Yes. I'm not afraid. I believe in life after death.

"I know I'll be able to look down on Tiggy. She'll go through loss and sorrow but she will also be free," he told the aforementioned publication.

The pair have been married for 20 years and moved to Dorset three years ago after realising the damp in their Georgian farmhouse was making Johnnie's illness worse.

Their new home in Dorset is a single-storey home which easily allows the dad-of-one to access his recording studio when he wants a bit of light relief and to listen to some music.

He also spends most of his time in the main room with floor-to-ceiling windows and allows Johnnie to look outside the fields.

The Radio 2 presenter has explained that although he can't breathe at times, he is thankfully not in any pain from his illness.

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