Married At First Sight's Mel Schilling 'feeling positive' as she offers cancer treatment update

Married At First Sight's Mel Schilling has said she is “feeling positive and confident about the future” amid treatment for cancer. The reality star, one of three relationship experts on the UK version of E4’s hit show, had keyhole surgery to remove a cancerous tumour in her colon before Christmas.

Mel, who has been a part of the Married At First Sight cast since 2016, first in her home country, Australia, and later on the UK version of the show, which airs on E4, first shared her cancer diagnosis earlier in December in an Instagram post which featured a picture of her cuddling into husband Gareth Brisbane, 51, and daughter Madison, eight.

"'YOU HAVE CANCER', Three little words that everyone dreads but no one ever expects to hear," she said at the time. Mel went on to tell fans she was suffering pain in her stomach while filming the reality series out in Australia before the five-centimetre tumour was removed.

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Mel, who has been announced as the new ambassador for colorectal charity Occtopus, The Oxford Colon Cancer Trust, spoke of the importance of "reducing the fear factor around bowel cancer".

Bowel cancer is cancer found anywhere in the large bowel, which includes the colon and rectum, and is one of the most common types of cancer in the UK, according to the NHS website.

She said: "It is really important to me to demystify a bowel cancer diagnosis and put people at ease about it. It doesn’t always mean a negative outcome or a drastic impact on your everyday life, so don’t assume the worst if you start noticing