star is opening up about his wife's cancer diagnosis. Speaking to in a new interview, the farmer and TV presenter recalled feeling "totally lost" after his partner, Charlie Gilbert, learned she had pancreatic cancer in 2021. "As a farmer, you're solving problems every day from the moment you wake up until you go to bed," he explained to the publication.
"But I didn't have the skills or knowledge to fix this. I was terrified. It was emotionally overwhelming - all I could do was deal with the facts and be as supportive as possible.
" Adam, 58, had been with Charlie for 28 years at the time of her diagnosis. The couple – who share a daughter, Ella, 25, and son Alfie, 21 – had met in sixth form, and after reconnecting when they were 28, settled on an idyllic Cotswolds farm. Charlie – a location manager with the BBC – had experienced some stomach upset in 2020, but when her symptoms worsened, prompting her to lose 10lbs, she turned to her GP in 2021.
Adam had been away filming in Scotland when Charlie learned that she had a four-and-a-half centimetre tumour on her pancreas. "I absolutely felt this was going to be the end of my life," she told . After the GP's diagnosis was confirmed by Gloucester Royal Hospital, Charlie realised that what she really wanted was to get married: "I needed this public show of unity, and I needed to bring us together before I died," she reflected.
For Adam, it was an easy yes, and the pair planned their wedding for the following month, tying the.
