LazyTown star Stefan Karl Stefansson has sadly revealed that his cancer is back and it's 'inoperable'.

Last year, Stefan was diagnosed with a rare form of bile-duct cancer called cholangiocarcinoma, but he said in August that he was "free from the disease, the cancer", although he noted that it could return.

Stefan then revealed last Saturday (March 10) that his cancer had come back.

"It's not until they tell you you're going to die soon that you realise how short life is. Time is the most valuable thing in life because it never comes back. And whether you spend it in the arms of a loved one or alone in a prison-cell, life is what you make of it. Dream big," he wrote.

In a reply to a fan a few days later, Stefan added that "this time they can't operate on it".

In a post on Facebook, his wife Steinunn Olina Thorsteinsdottir called the return of the cancer "a difficult turning point" (translated by Iceland Monitor).

"His illness has had an impact on the whole family, naturally. Some days we feel very low, some days we are happy and are happy about all that we have accomplished together and lived together. Nobody can take that away from us, however this goes. Not even death itself," she added.

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Stefan played the villainous Robbie Rotten in the hit children's TV show LazyTown, famous for his inept evil plans and range of silly facial expressions.

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