Eric Idle nicknamed his cancer “Kenny”. The Monty Python star recently revealed he had successfully battled pancreatic three years ago, but he’s admitted he and his wife Tania didn’t want to “freak people out” by using the name of the disease, so opted to refer to it by something “far less threatening”. He recalled: “I break the news to my wife Tania, and even though she will reveal later that she would go into the garden with the dogs and cry, I tell her early on that she is in no way British and that tears, and even other expressions of emotion, are quite acceptable. She can weep. She can co…