Celebs Go Dating's Professor Green reveals tumours in concerning health update
Celebs Go Dating 2026 star Professor Green revealed he has a tumour behind his left eye and three along his spine.
Celebs Go Dating's Professor Green has a tumour behind his eye and three along his spine.
The 42-year-old rapper had four "relatively superficial but painful" growths on his head and neck removed, but the star was hit with an emotional setback soon after with the discovery of the additional tumours.
On Sunday (03.05.26), Professor Green - real name Stephen Manderson - posted a shot of himself puffing his cheeks as he looked into the camera, and penned over it: "If only genes came on hangers and you could choose your perfect fit."
The upload's lengthy caption read: "Genes are funny old things. The combo of my parents handed me adhd, autism, pyloric stenosis, factor vii deficiency and the latest addition: schwannomatosis.
"My nerve sheath tumours are thankfully benign, but chronic and not without complications - some more than others depending on their location.
"After four relatively superficial but painful growths were removed from my head and neck, I’ve now found out I have one behind my left eye and three along my spine: two smaller lesions at t5 and t6, and one the size of a blemmin’ lime around my s2 nerve. (sic)"
Professor Green - who was diagnosed with ADHD and autism aged 40 - panicked for weeks, "whether or not they were benign or malignant".
The Read All About It hitmaker added: "I feel as though as painful as this is (I thought it was ‘just’ worsening sciatica), the trauma I went through in my head living out worst case scenario’s was worse. (sic)"
He has accepted that "there’s no way around it".
Professor Green continued: "And that’s OK. What isn’t OK is descending into cyclical thought, nor is catastrophising or dreaming of some other reality - both are avoidance and neither conducive to being present.
"It's hard knowing what's owing to what sometimes - is the physical pain causing mental anguish, or is my mental load manifesting physically?
"Again, it's probably not worth too much thought - I’m doing my utmost to acknowledge, accept and exist wholly and fully without becoming avoidant and being somewhat willingly distracted by it all. Though hands up to having been hijacked by it all for a few weeks.
"I likely suffer hyper-interoception; an overactive ability to feel internal sensations, which I’ve only found out about post autism diagnosis. It’s helped me make sense of a lot… and allowed me to pull my focus away from it when I realise, I’m becoming obsessive. (sic)"
But Professor Green is making the most of his life.
He said: "It's an intense experience, but it's mine, and it's the only one I’ll ever know.
"Working towards ‘not everything is OK, but I am’ and doing better some days than I am others but working with whatever I have on any given day.
"To anyone suffering with anything chronic - I see, hear and feel you! Back to programming as usual. (sic)"
