{"id":412573,"date":"2025-11-29T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/412573\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:35:21","slug":"beloved-hgtv-star-hilary-farr-breaks-silence-on-devastating-health-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/412573\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved HGTV star Hilary Farr breaks silence on &#8216;devastating&#8217; health rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/12\/01\/entertainment\/hgtvs-love-it-or-list-its-hilary-farr-exiting-after-19-seasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beloved HGTV star Hilary Farr<\/a> shut down \u201cdevastating\u201d health rumors after an AI-generated post sparked panic \u2014 by popping up in a playful Instagram video with a cheerful \u201cTa daaa!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old \u201cLove It or List It\u201d interior designer reassured fans she\u2019s \u201calive and well\u201d after bogus AI images of her in an oxygen mask went viral, paired with an explosive caption claiming the doctor treating her \u201ccancer\u201d announced she might not \u201cmake it\u201d or appear on TV again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTa daaa. I\u2019m alive, very, very, very much so alive and well, I\u2019m happy to say,\u201d the Canadian-British TV personality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DRi4h07jjks\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=76e5be12-1cdd-4d6e-b442-2150fd0030ff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quipped in a cheeky Wednesday video<\/a>, appearing in front of the phony news report. <\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old interior designer reassured fans she\u2019s \u201calive and well\u201d after AI images of her went viral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, look at this thing, really?\u201d Farr added, roasting the images, calling it \u201ccrazy, AI stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so badly done. I hope none of you would really take any of this seriously and realize it is just fake beyond words,\u201d she told her more than 318,000 followers. <\/p>\n<p>The bogus images showed Farr in an oxygen mask, with a caption claiming she wasn\u2019t going to \u201cmake it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I\u2019m here to prove that. So, just checking in. All\u2019s good with me, hope all\u2019s good with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Relieved fans poured into the comments, applauding her for calling out AI-generated scams and gushing over how fabulous and healthy she looks. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank God you are healthy and thank you for setting the record straight!\u201d one fan wrote, wishing her and her family happy holidays. <\/p>\n<p>Another wrote, \u201cNice to see you! This AI stuff is getting old and out of hand! So happy you\u2019re addressing it! Enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Farr, 74, has been open about her health struggles after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014.  FilmMagic<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so happy you\u2019re good!\u201d another admirer raved, adding, \u201cIt would break my heart to hear any of that was true. Rock on Hilary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLove It or List It\u201d star had previously opened up about her health struggles, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/health\/love-it-or-list-its-hilary-farr-reveals-breast-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telling People in 2021<\/a> that she secretly battled breast cancer after her 2014 diagnosis. <\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPM_z1pjszJ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has reportedly been in remission<\/a> since 2022. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beloved HGTV star Hilary Farr shut down \u201cdevastating\u201d health rumors after an AI-generated post sparked panic \u2014 by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":412574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,738,171,102191,12215,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,399,173,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-412573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hgtv","12":"tag-interior-design","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-television","20":"tag-tv","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115632309840037884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}