{"id":44060,"date":"2020-10-12T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44060"},"modified":"2020-10-12T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:26:17","slug":"the-wanted-singer-tom-parker-reveals-he-has-inoperable-brain-tumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44060","title":{"rendered":"The Wanted singer Tom Parker reveals he has inoperable brain tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 32-year-old told fans he has a grade four glioblastoma tumor and is undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"34.650793650794\">Parker, who announced earlier this year that he and his wife are expecting their second child, wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CGO5ydNp_NG\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Instagram<\/a>: &#8220;We are all absolutely devastated but we are gonna fight this all the way. <\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want your sadness, we just want love and positivity and together we will raise awareness of this terrible disease and look for all available treatment options.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"35.625\">In an interview with Britain&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ok.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/tom-parker-brain-tumour-kelsey-22820686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OK! Magazine<\/a>, Parker and his wife, Kelsey Hardwick, said his doctors described the tumor as a &#8220;worst-case scenario&#8221; and informed the couple that it was terminal.<\/div>\n<div readability=\"53\">\n<p>The average survival time for patients with a grade four glioblastoma, one of the most serious kinds of tumors, is between a year and 18 months, according to UK nonprofit The Brain Tumour Charity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"el__storyelement--standard el__article--embed\">\n<div class=\"el__article--teaseimage\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/06\/entertainment\/tom-meighan-quits-kasabian-intl-scli-gbr\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive\" alt=\"Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan quits rock band over &#39;personal issues&#39;\" data-src-mini=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/200706075341-restricted-file-tom-meighan-2016-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/200706075341-restricted-file-tom-meighan-2016-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/200706075341-restricted-file-tom-meighan-2016-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/200706075341-restricted-file-tom-meighan-2016-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/200706075341-restricted-file-tom-meighan-2016-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/200706075341-restricted-file-tom-meighan-2016-full-169.jpg\" data-src-mini1x1=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/200706075341-restricted-file-tom-meighan-2016-small-11.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"not-loaded\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0, xsmall: 221, small: 308, medium: 461, large: 781\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP\/\/\/\/\/\/\/wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan quits rock band over &#39;personal issues&#39;\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/200706075341-restricted-file-tom-meighan-2016-large-169.jpg\"><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The singer said he went to hospital after suffering two seizures over the summer. Parker told OK!: &#8220;They pulled the curtain around my bed and said, &#8216;It&#8217;s a brain tumour.&#8217; All I could think was, &#8216;F*****g hell!&#8217; I was in shock. It&#8217;s stage four glioblastoma and they&#8217;ve said it&#8217;s terminal. It was a lot to deal with by myself. I still haven&#8217;t processed it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parker rose to fame as part of The Wanted, a five-piece boy band whose hits included &#8220;All Time Low&#8221; and &#8220;Heart Vacancy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group enjoyed a string of top five singles in the UK, including two number ones, while their 2011 track &#8220;Glad You Came&#8221; made it to number 3 in the US Billboard charts. They split up in 2014 to pursue solo projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 32-year-old told fans he has a grade four glioblastoma tumor and is undergoing treatment.Parker, who announced earlier this year that he and his wife are expecting their second child, wrote on Instagram: &#8220;We are all absolutely devastated but we are gonna fight this all the way. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want your sadness, we just want&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}