At 74, the former wife of football legend George Best has shared an uplifting update following major surgery, marking what she describes as the beginning of an entirely new chapter. After facing a frightening period filled with uncertainty, treatment and recovery, Angie is now looking forward with renewed confidence rather than dwelling on what she has endured. 💪✨
Seven months ago, Angie Best was facing one of the most frightening battles of her life.
Now, at 74, the former model and ex-wife of football legend George Best has shared the news she had desperately hoped to deliver: she says she is officially cancer free.
Angie revealed that doctors successfully removed the remaining cancer from her colon during major surgery, bringing an emotional turning point in a journey that began with a devastating Stage 3 colon cancer diagnosis.
After months of treatment, dramatic weight loss, hair loss and the enormous physical and emotional strain of living with cancer, Angie emerged from hospital with a very different message for those who had followed her ordeal.
This time, there were tears of relief rather than fear.
“I’m a truly happy grateful girl, it’s over,” she wrote.
And rather than simply looking back at what she has survived, Angie is already looking ahead.
At an age when many might be thinking about slowing down, she has made an extraordinary promise to herself.
She wants to begin again.
“I’ve got so much I want to do,” she declared. “I’m going to reinvent myself at the ripe old age of 74.”
Angie Best revealed in an Instagram video on Saturday that she is offically cancer free after doctors successfully removed tumours from her colon in a major surgery
Angie had travelled to Switzerland for an unconventional cancer treatment known as mistletoe therapy, so called because it uses extracts from the European mistletoe plant, which can be used alongside traditional chemotherapy
From a devastating diagnosis to the news she had dreamed of hearing
Angie’s cancer battle became public earlier this year after her son, reality television personality Calum Best, revealed that his mother had been diagnosed with colon cancer that had spread to her liver.
The diagnosis was particularly shocking given Angie’s lifelong commitment to health, fitness and wellbeing.
Calum, who is the son of Angie and late Manchester United icon George Best, struggled to contain his emotions as he shared the news.
He acknowledged the cruel reality that cancer can affect anyone, regardless of how carefully they have tried to look after themselves.
For the family, the diagnosis marked the beginning of months of uncertainty.
Angie later spoke openly about the toll the disease and its treatment were taking on her body and mind.
She documented hair loss, dramatic changes in her appearance and the exhaustion that accompanied her treatment.
Yet she continued to share updates with her followers, allowing them to witness both the difficult days and the moments of hope.
The tumour that had to be removed
According to Angie, treatment before surgery had dramatically reduced the cancer in her colon.
She explained that chemotherapy and immunotherapy had shrunk what she described as a 30cm mass down to a much smaller remaining area attached to the colon.
That final section still needed to be surgically removed.
Angie underwent laparoscopic, or keyhole, surgery, describing the procedure in her characteristically humorous way as being a little like an interior designer “moving the furniture around” inside her body.
Despite her light-hearted description, she made clear that the operation itself was major.
After surgery, doctors closely monitored her recovery and initially kept her on fluids while waiting to make sure her digestive system was functioning properly.
For Angie, something as ordinary as being able to eat and use the bathroom normally suddenly became a reason for enormous celebration.
Everything, she said, began working exactly as doctors hoped.
Then came the words she had been waiting months to say.
“I’m so happy because now I can officially say with gratitude and love that I am cancer free and healing,” Angie told her followers.
“All I’ve got to do now is get better.”
‘This is why I look so drawn’
The battle has clearly left its mark.
Angie acknowledged that she had lost a significant amount of weight during treatment and surgery, explaining that this was why she appeared noticeably thinner and more drawn.
But rather than focusing on how much her appearance had changed, she seemed determined to view it as temporary.
She joked that she had already started eating again and was confident she would regain the weight as her body recovered.
For someone who has spent much of her life associated with fitness, modelling and physical wellbeing, the changes caused by cancer treatment could have been especially difficult.
Yet Angie’s message was overwhelmingly focused on recovery rather than appearance.
Her body, she made clear, had been through an extraordinary ordeal.
Now she intends to give it time to heal.
A controversial complementary treatment journey
During her cancer battle, Angie also travelled between the UK and Switzerland, where she received mistletoe therapy alongside conventional medical treatment.
Mistletoe extracts have been used as a complementary cancer therapy in parts of Europe for decades, particularly in countries including Germany and Switzerland.
However, it is important to distinguish complementary treatment from proven cancer-curing therapy.
Mistletoe therapy is not a standard NHS cancer treatment, and major medical bodies say evidence that it can cure cancer remains insufficient.
Angie’s treatment journey also included conventional approaches, including chemotherapy, immunotherapy and ultimately surgery to remove the remaining cancer.
Her announcement that she is cancer free followed the successful removal of the remaining tumour from her colon.
Son Calum’s heartbreaking plea
One of the most emotional moments of Angie’s journey came when Calum publicly revealed his mother’s diagnosis.
The former Celebrity Big Brother star admitted that the news had left him devastated.
“My beautiful, wonderful mum was diagnosed with cancer,” he told followers at the time.
Calum said he had barely cried in years but found himself on an intense “emotional rollercoaster” after learning that his mother was ill.
He also spoke openly about the financial pressures surrounding her specialist care and launched a fundraising campaign to help support treatment costs.
For a son watching his mother face a life-threatening illness, there was little he could do except try to find every possible avenue of support.
Months later, the family finally received the kind of update they had been longing for.
First came encouraging news that cancer was no longer detected in Angie’s liver.
Then came the major colon surgery.
And now, Angie says the remaining cancer has been successfully removed.
‘I’m going to reinvent myself’
Perhaps the most powerful part of Angie’s latest update was not simply her declaration that she is cancer free.
It was what she said next.
After seven months dominated by hospital visits, treatments, uncertainty and fear, Angie suddenly finds herself thinking about the future again.
Not merely surviving it.
Living it.
“I’ve got so much I want to do,” she said.
Then came a line that perfectly captured her determination.
“I’m going to reinvent myself at the ripe old age of 74. Wish me luck!”
It is a striking declaration from a woman who has spent decades living in the public eye.
Angie was once known internationally as a model and fitness figure and later became widely recognised through her marriage to George Best, one of football’s most celebrated and complicated icons.
She and George were married from 1978 until 1986 and welcomed their son Calum in 1981.
But at 74, Angie appears determined that the next chapter of her life will not simply be defined by her famous former husband — or by cancer.
She wants to decide what comes next for herself.
A second chance she intends to embrace
Recovery from such major surgery will not happen overnight.
Angie acknowledged that she still needs time to heal and regain her strength after everything her body has endured.
Her announcement also reflects her own account of her latest medical status; as with anyone treated for cancer, continued medical follow-up remains important.
But for now, the mood could hardly be more different from the frightening uncertainty that surrounded her diagnosis earlier this year.
Seven months ago, Angie and her family were confronting Stage 3 colon cancer and the news that the disease had spread to her liver.
Today, she is talking about food, healing, gaining back her strength — and reinventing her life at 74.
After months in which cancer dictated so much of her existence, Angie is finally allowing herself to imagine a future beyond treatment.
And perhaps that is what makes her latest message so powerful.
It is not simply about surviving an illness.
It is about what you choose to do when life gives you another chapter.
For Angie Best, that chapter is only just beginning.
