Sarah Beeny, the broadcaster and property expert, has announced that she has been given the all-clear after receiving treatment for breast cancer.
The 51-year-old revealed the diagnosis last August and has since undergone chemotherapy and a double mastectomy.
Speaking on ITV’s Lorraine on Friday, she said recent months had been “a bit of a rollercoaster ride” but that she felt “very blessed”. “I feel very fortunate that I had the diagnosis that I did, and that I live in 2022-23, and that I’m the age I am. So many things that I’m fortunate for,” she said.
Beeny, best known for shows including Property Ladder and Help! My House is Falling Down, said the people treating her in the NHS had been “amazing” and that she had received “so much support” from the public and the people around her.
“I can’t tell you how lovely everyone’s been. It’s been overwhelming,” she added.
She said that, despite being given the all-clear, she had been told she would have to take a course of drugs for the next 10 years and remain “very vigilant”.
Beeny lost her own mother to breast cancer aged just 10.
Speaking to the Telegraph following her diagnosis, Beeny said her cancer was very treatable because it had been caught before it spread. She urged other women to check their breasts regularly and to trust their instincts.
Beeny continued working while undergoing treatment, and the next series of her latest show, Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country, is due to air on Channel 4 next week.
The series follows Beeny and her family as they renovate a former dairy farm and adapt to life in the countryside after relocating from London to Somerset. She will be releasing a book about the move, titled The Simple Life, in August.
She is married to artist Graham Swift and the couple have four sons.
The latest series was shot before she received her cancer diagnosis, although Channel 4 announced in November that it had commissioned a series, Breast Cancer, My Family and Me, that will document Beeny’s treatment.
