Sarah Beeny, 53, announces new career role after cancer battle as she opens up on impact of diagnosis
Television presenter Sarah Beeny has shared a significant life update as she opened up on her cancer diagnosis.
The Property Ladder host, 53, shared her heartbreaking experience with the illness as she shared news of a new career role.
Speaking on Thursday, the Britain’s Best Homes star revealed she is now a patron of Brain Tumour Research during an appearance on BBC Breakfast.
Almost three years ago, Beeny was told she had breast cancer, but she’s also had other traumatic experiences with the devastating illness.
When she was only 10, she tragically lost her mother to breast cancer which spread to her brain.
Heartbreakingly, the presenter’s stepmother also died of a brain tumour.
“I’m very lucky, I had a very fortunate diagnosis,” she stated on the morning programme.
She continued: “I’m fortunate that people like my mother, who died when I was 10, died and they did the research.
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“She won’t see her grandchildren, but she died so I can see mine,” she shared poignantly.
Continuing, she confessed: “I would like to see the amount of resources and efforts put towards finding a cure for brain tumour as has been done for breast cancer.
“I’m not saying it’s always a good story, but it’s a lot better than it was 30 years ago.”
Beeny announced in August 2022 she had been diagnosed with cancer and has since undergone a double mastectomy, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
In April 2023, she shared the good news that she had been given the all-clear, describing it on ITV’s Lorrain as “a bit of a rollercoaster ride.”
She stated: “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.”
Following the ordeal, the presenter fronted a documentary, Sarah Beeny vc Cancer, which aired on Channel 4.
She detailed how she was passionate about sharing her story because there “might be loads of people who wouldn’t be so scared”.
Speaking in 2023, Beeny shared a candid update on her marriage in 2023, reflecting on the difficulties she and husband Graham Swift had faced.
“We’re hanging on in there by our fingernails. I mean, it’s not easy, is it?” she told Gabby Logan on The Mid.Point podcast.
“Graham always said, ‘The day we have to work at our marriage, I’m going to leave’. And I was like, ‘Really?'”
“But I think he has had to work at it, to be honest,” Beeny admitted. “I was being particularly horrible.
“I have been a bit horrible in the last couple of years to be honest at times.”