Sarah Beeny has revealed that she has breast cancer and is currently undergoing treatment.
The 50-year-old presenter and property expert is best known for her work on UK property programmes, including Help! My House Is Falling Down and Sarah Beeny’s New Life In The Country.
During an interview with The Telegraph, Sarah said that she had “a little bit of a breakdown” after receiving the news.
Speaking to the newspaper, she revealed she began a course of chemotherapy to treat the cancer last week and will have surgery and undergo radiotherapy in the New Year.
Despite her diagnosis, the presenter has said she will continue to work and is currently focused on a new Channel 4 series and book she has planned for later in the year.
“I’m lucky because I live in a family where we all talk,” she explained. “They just said, ‘You will be honest?’ And I said, ‘I promise you that I’m going to be around for a jolly long time yet. It’s going to be a bit difficult. But I promise I won’t lie.’ And I think they were OK once I said that.”
She added that she plans to draw on her “inner strength” throughout her treatment process.
Sarah lost her mother to breast cancer when she was 10 years old.
She has four children – Rafferty, Laurie, Billy, and Charlie – and has been married to her husband, artist Graham Swift, since 2003.
In 2010, Sarah began to chart the renovation of Rise Hall, a Grade II-listed stately home in Rise, East Yorkshire, as part of Channel 4 series Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare.
Together with her husband, she worked to renovate Rise Hall as a family home and wedding venue, then sold the property in 2019.
In March that year she revealed that she was quitting London to move to a seven-bedroom house in Somerset with her family.
The couple bought the 220-acre sheep farm in August 2018 and Sarah later said she had decided to make the move permanent after considering her children’s education.