Comedy icon Vic Reeves is still living with a brain tumour that doctors “can’t remove”, and it has left him with life-changing symptoms. One half of the hilarious double act Vic and Bob, Vic – real name Jim Moir – was diagnosed with an inoperable vestibular schwannoma, also known as an acoustic neuroma.

Though it is benign and not cancerous, the tumour has left him completely deaf in one ear. He said on the Adam Buxton Podcast: “It’s benign. They can’t remove it. They can shrink it or they can just leave it and keep an eye on it, and that’s what they’re doing.

“I would rather hear than not, but this happened, so you just get on with it, don’t you?”

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