Horton didn’t go into detail about whether or not the mole was cancerous, but either way, he seemed thankful for the fan who reached out.
A similar scenario played out last year for a reality television star.
Tarek El Moussa, who co-stars on HGTV’s “Flip or Flop” with his wife Christina, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer after a viewer noticed he had a lump in his throat.
The viewer, a registered nurse, emailed producers after watching the show to advise El Moussa to get his neck checked out. It turned out El Moussa not only had thyroid cancer, but it had also spread to his lymph nodes.
“If it wasn’t for TV or her noticing this huge lump on my neck, I would still be moving forward with my life with cancer in my body and never doing anything about it,” said the TV personality last November.
Last year he said he had been in remission for two years.
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