He is currently battling cancer for the second time and has been receiving gruelling rounds of chemotherapy for several weeks.
And Barry Du Bois remained defiant in fighting the disease as he revealed it ‘can’t be my time’ during a tearful reunion with his The Living Room co-host Amanda Keller.
The TV host and builder, 57, struggled to hold back tears as he told an emotional Amanda he was ‘really angry’ when he found out in October that the cancer had returned.
Brave: Barry Du Bois remained defiant in fighting cancer for the second time as he revealed it ‘can’t be my time’
‘I didn’t know what to expect physically. You look good,’ Amanda told him while visiting him in hospital during Friday’s episode of The Living Room.
Barry said: ‘Since I found out about this – you were the one of the first people I told – I got really angry.’
Struggling to contain his emotion, the father-of-two added shakily: ‘But this cant be my time… it cant be my time.
‘I got myself physically fit, fitter than I’ve been for a long time, lost a few of those kilos that I didn’t need and started this race as a favourite.’
Emotional: The TV host and builder, 57, struggled to hold back the tears as he told an emotional Amanda he was ‘really angry’ when he found out in October that the cancer had returned
Dear friend: ‘I got myself physically fit, fitter than I’ve been for a long time, lost a few of those kilos that I didn’t need and started this race as a favourite’ he said
Holding Barry’s hands tightly, Amanda replied: ‘I know that just a few days ago you weren’t feeling great but you feel like you’ve turned a little corner.’
Barry is currently on leave from his regular stint on The Living Room, while he receives treatment for plasmacytoma myeloma – a cancer of the immune system.
The builder, who had been in remission for six years, revealed in October that the disease had returned.
In a loose T-shirt and trilby that covered his hair loss, a trim-looking Barry admitted the last few days had taken their emotional toll.
Sweet: Holding Barry’s hands tightly, Amanda replied: ‘I know that just a few days ago you weren’t feeling great but you feel like you’ve turned a little corner’
‘I got a little infection, which happens in this situation. The chemo’s job is to take your white cells down to zero,’ he said.
Du Bois added that he’s been struggling with not seeing his twins Arabella and Bennett, who started school this year.
He shares the five-year-old youngsters with his wife Leonie – who herself battled cervical cancer after a miscarriage.
Amanda tearfully told him: ‘There’s so much love for you Baz, everywhere I go people say, ‘Give my love to Baz’.’
Keller revealed earlier this week that Barry was recovering from a dose of chemotherapy that ‘almost killed him’ prior to the visit.
Support: Amanda tearfully told him: ‘There’s so much love for you Baz, everywhere I go people say, ‘Give my love to Baz”
‘To know someone you love go through that is terrible; when I walked in and saw him we both cried,’ she told Cosmopolitan.
She added that while there were tears, she left the meeting feeling uplifted.
‘During the time together, we laughed and cried in equal measure,’ she said. ‘There is a lot to be optimistic about.’
She later shared a snap of their reunion on Instagram, writing: ‘Caught up with this beautiful man. Heart as big as Phar Lap but without that horsey smell.’
She added: ‘How loved is @baz_dubois? Everywhere I go people ask how he’s going.’
Family man: Du Bois said he’s been struggling with not seeing his twins Arabella and Bennett, who started school this year. He shares the five-year-old youngsters with his wife Leonie (all pictured during a recent hospital visit) – who herself battled cervical cancer after a miscarriage
Staying strong: Barry is currently on leave from his regular stint on The Living Room, while he receives treatment for plasmacytoma myeloma – a cancer of the immune system
Barry also posted a shot with his dear friend and wrote: ‘Best medicine you can get is a visit from a beautiful friend, dropped in for a visit & we had a great chat.’
Barry was diagnosed with plasmacytoma – a cancer of the immune system – in 2010, and underwent successful treatment.
However, in an emotional Living Room segment in October last year, he revealed his cancer had returned as multiple myeloma – a cancer of plasma cells.
‘In the medical world, I am on the exit off the freeway, there is no doubt about that,’ he told the panel.
He continued: ‘I have always backed myself and I will back myself on this and I will have the support to win it. I have the support of my family and my beautiful friends around me.’
Defiant: He said: ‘In the medical world, I am on the exit off the freeway, there is no doubt about that. I have always backed myself and I will back myself on this and I will have the support to win it. I have the support of my family and my beautiful friends around me’