HJ is saddened to report that hairdressing legend Trevor Sorbie MBE has revealed he has 'weeks left to live' in an interview with This Morning's Cat Deeley and Ben Shepherd.
Trevor was first diagnosed with bowel cancer five years ago and was recently forced to give up hairdressing full time due to the side effects of chemotherapy.
Trevor joined Cat and Ben on the This Morning sofa, along with his wife Carole, to sadly announce that his cancer had spread.
In true Trevor spirit, he told Cat and Ben: "I never wake up thinking 'poor me, I have cancer', nor do I feel sorry for myself.
"Up until two weeks ago I was still going to work a couple of days a week. I go there because that’s my medicine, that’s my life. I have worked passionately to achieve my wildest dreams and beyond. Some of my staff I’ve had for up to 30 years, they’re family to me."
Speaking on his hairdressing career, which has seen him awarded an MBE in 2004, he said: "I wanted to be an artist originally. I got bullied at school; my dad was a barber and told me to come in the barbershop, it was just classic short back and sides etc, no styling, but I found hairdressing easy and within three months I was cutting people’s hair. I swapped paint for hair."
Trevor is responsible for creating iconic hairstyles such as The Wedge and the Scrunch Dry. “At the time you don’t know that you’re doing anything ground-breaking, you’re just doing what feels natural," he explained.
"I invented the Scrunch Dry by accident; I had this lady with long, thick, red, porous hair, and these were ladies that lunch, you know that type of atmosphere. And she wanted it dried with my hands, but I asked if I could speed it up a bit. I got handfuls of hair and put the hairdryer in, and then just shook it out. I then experimented on different types of hair, and it worked every time."
Trevor's wife Carole was by his side on the TV show. "We got the news back in June that Trevor only had a few months left.
“It's totally overwhelming on most days, but I get my strength from this man. Every day we are thankful for the day we have, that we wake up together and our little dog is pure medicine," she shared.
Carole continued: "We are supported by the whole Trevor Sorbie family. There’s more than 20 people who have worked with him for 20 - 30 years, and they’re all family.”
Trevor shared that he asked a nurse who had come to assess him if he would make Christmas, and she said: 'I don’t know'. In true Trevor spirit, he replied: “I damn well will.”
We send Trevor and his family much love at this difficult time.
