A group of veterans from the Singapore entertainment scene, including actor-hosts Suhaimi Yusof and Gurmit Singh, gathered at Hai Ge Ji, rapper Sheikh Haikel’s Bussorah Street restaurant, to show support for the rapper after his cancer disclosure.
In an Instagram carousel posted on the same day of the visit, Sept 8, Suhaimi described how he and Singh were devastated after they found out about Haikel’s condition. The musician and food entrepreneur revealed that he has Stage 4 colon cancer in a Sept 4 Instagram video.
Suhaimi’s Instagram post had several photos of the visit, including one of Singh embracing Haikel. Among the personalities seen in the pictures were radio veteran Bernard Lim and Malay pop singers Mahani Mohd and Kamaliah Latiff.
Both Suhaimi and Lim are stroke survivors who co-host online radio show Subern Show on Power 98.
Haikel and Singh’s joint projects included starring roles in Mediacorp’s comedy-drama series SSSOFA (2013).
Suhaimi wrote in the caption: “Today (08/09/26) we met, we hug, we joked, we laughed, we shed tears and we realised how much we really appreciate each other (and) prayed for one another.”
Suhaimi added the “miracle news” that Haikel’s “colon is clear of cancer” but he still “needs to battle the ones that affect his liver”.
“We pray for his full recovery,” he wrote and ended by making a call to support Haikal and Francis by patronising their restaurant.
In a Sept 5 interview with The Straits Times, Haikel said that he had gone through chemotherapy and four major abdominal operations that cleared the primary tumour in the colon.
The cancer had already progressed aggressively to Stage 4 and spread to his liver by the time he started his treatments and he would be undergoing more chemotherapy.
Other celebrities who have publicly expressed solidarity with Haikel include Singaporean actor Aaron Aziz, who posted a video message on Sept 6 on their close bond.
