Radio host Robin Bailey loses her dog to a cancerous tumour after it ‘erupted in his abdomen’

She recently marked the first anniversary of the death of her second husband, Sean Pickwell.

And 16 months on from losing the 56-year-old to liver cancer, breakfast radio host Robin Bailey has now said goodbye to her beloved dog, too.

In an emotional tribute on Instagram, the 52-year-old informed her followers that Rai had passed on from a cancerous tumour, which ‘had erupted in his abdomen’.

‘Its awful but last night at 11.25 we had to put our big boy Rai to sleep,’ she captioned her post, containing a series of images of the dog.

‘He collapsed outside and we managed to get him to the 24-hour vets. A cancerous tumour had erupted in his abdomen and he was bleeding internally.

‘One of the blessings of this lockdown is everyone was home and we all got to say goodbye and hold him while he slipped away.’

The mother-of-three added that one of her sons, 18-year-old Lewin, was ‘devastated’ about the news.

Robin is also the mother to 16-year-old Piper and 20-year-old Fin. 

‘They say everything happens the way it’s supposed to and the vet who helped us was someone I went to school with in Sydney… she was so kind and he was in pain so it was time,’ she wrote.

‘Lew is devastated, as we all are, as that big beautiful soul got us through some terrible traumatic times but everyone said we’d know when he’d had enough and we did! So heartbroken… he was one in a billion, one of those truly special dogs.’

Rai’s death follows Robin marking the first anniversary of her second husband’s death in September, who died of liver cancer in 2019. His death came five years after her first husband, Tony Smart, tragically took his own life in September 2014.

Robin only returned to the airwaves in January 2020, joining the Australian Radio Network’s (ARN) 97.3 FM’s breakfast show.

It is the first she has worked since resigning from Triple M Brisbane in September to spend more time with late spouse.