Sir Cliff Richard has survived a secret battle with prostate cancer.

The 85-year-old entertainer has revealed he was diagnosed with the disease after it was picked up by doctors during an insurance check-up ahead of a tour and it has now "gone" as it was spotted early before it could spread.

Cliff opened up about his health crisis during an appearance on TV show Good Morning Britain on Monday (15.12.25), saying: "I was about to embark on a tour which in fact ended this time at the Royal Albert Hall [in London].

"But I was going to Australia and to New Zealand and the promoter said: 'Well we need for your insurance, you need to be checked up for something.'

"They found that I had prostate cancer. But the good fortune was that it was not very old and the other thing is that it has not metastasized.

"Nothing had moved into bones or anything like that."

He went on to add: "The cancer's gone at the moment. I don't know whether it's going to come back. We can't tell those sort of things but we need to, absolutely, I'm convinced, get there, get tested, get checked."

It comes after the music veteran declared he wouldn't be retiring after his Can't Stop Me Now tour this year.

According to The Mirror, he told New Zealand radio station Coast: "I'm sure the audience will see that we - the big band and I - are friends and almost a family when we're on tour.

"So, we'll try and do something that will make it look as though I'm 18! But I'm not. I don't want to be an 85-year-old guy trying to be 18.

"The thing I would have to give up probably at some time is touring. It's very wearing, and you never know when you wake up in the morning whether your voice is still there'.

"I might be dead the next year! So, I don't even think about it anymore. It's one of those things. As I get older maybe I'll become less able to perform, so I can't say."

Cliff previously insisted he will never retire as the word is not "in his vocabulary".

He told The Mirror: "I don't know if I ever want to retire. I don't mind stopping. "Stopping would mean that I could absolutely change my mind any time I wanted to, or phone my office and say, 'Can you get us a couple of nights at the Royal Albert Hall?'

"So, retiring is not in my vocabulary, but stopping is good for me - I can work whenever I want to, if I want to."