Top food writer AA Gill has died just weeks after revealing he was suffering from an ’embarrassment of cancer’. Picture: Supplied.

Three weeks ago the 62-year-old dad-of-four said: “I’ve got an embarrassment of cancer, the full English. I have a trucker’s gut-buster, gimpy, malevolent, meaty malignancy.”

Gill had written for The Sunday Times since 1993 and his final article, about coming to terms with his cancer, will be published tomorrow.

A statement from Sunday Times editor Martin Ivens said: “It is with profound sadness that I must tell you that our much-loved colleague Adrian Gill died this morning.

“Adrian was stoical about his illness, but the suddenness of his death has shocked us all. “Characteristically he has had the last word, writing an outstanding article about coming to terms with his cancer in tomorrow’s Sunday Times Magazine.

Food writer AA Gill has died after revealing he had cancer in a restaurant review. Picture: Supplied.Source:News Limited

“He was the heart and soul of the paper. His wit was incomparable, his writing was dazzling and fearless, his intelligence was matched by compassion. Adrian was a giant among journalists. He was also our friend. We will miss him.

“I know you will want to join me in sending condolences to Nicola Formby and his children.”

AA GILL’S ACERBIC WIT REMEMBERED

Here are eight quotes from the restaurant critic:

* “I realise I don’t have a bucket list; I don’t feel I’ve been cheated of anything. I’d like to have gone to Timbuktu, and there are places I will be sorry not to see again. But actually, because of the nature of my life and the nature of what happened to me in my early life — my addiction, I know I have been very lucky. I gave up (alcohol) when I was still quite young, so it was like being offered the next life. It was the real Willy Wonka golden ticket, I got a really good deal. And at the last minute I found something I could do. Somebody said: why don’t you watch television, eat good food and travel and then write about it? And, as lives go, that’s pretty good” — Gill on his life in November 2016

* “I’ve got an embarrassment of cancer, the full English. There is barely a morsel of offal that is not included. I have a trucker’s gut-buster, gimpy, malevolent, meaty malignancy” — Gill on his illness in November 2016

* “Pasta is eaten by happy smiley people having fun with people they love or fancy and are about to shag. Noodles are eaten by people who have no friends” — Gill on the types of people who eat pasta and noodles in September 2016

* “She looks like an aborted egg” — Gill’s description of Dame Joan Collins’s appearance at a party in June 2016

* “The hair is a disaster, the outfit an embarrassment. If you are going to invite yourself into the front rooms of the living, then you need to make an effort” — Gill on historian Mary Beard who was presenting a TV series on the Romans in April 2012

* “Prince Charles’s vocal chords are plainly trying to strangle him. He may well become the first monarch to lose his head from the inside out” — Gill’s assessment of Prince Charles in August 2007

* “She is a symbol of cultural rot, a corny, calculated act for clueless, obese fans” — Gill on Canadian pop star Celine Dion in September 2003

* “Loquacious, dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls” — Gill’s description of the Welsh in the late 90s.

This story first appeared in The Sun.