MY SKIRT-RIP OP
Docs help Jay keep her Fizz
Singer praised NHS surgeons Jay, 57, told how docs used flesh from her thigh to reconstruct her tongue after she was diagnosed with mouth cancer. “They did a slightly different operation because of my skirtripping job,” she said. “I’ve had a graft on my leg slightly higher so it’s not so visible for my work, which has made a difference.”
Jay – who shot to fame in 1981 when Bucks Fizz won the Eurovision Song Contest with Making Eurovision stars
Your Mind Up – feared for her voice after her diagnosis in April.
But following the July operation she has been given the all-clear and is joining two of her Bucks Fizz pals – Cheryl Baker, 64, and Mike Nolan, 63 – in new band The Fizz. She added: “Everyone still always asks for the skirt-ripping. We’ll be doing it in our Zimmer frames!”
Speaking about her treatment at Guy’s Hospital in London, Jay said: “My two surgeons were amazing. I will be eternally grateful to them.
“The NHS are under-funded and they’re battling against it and I did witness that.
“But you’ve got these incredible people who just want to save lives.”
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