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The entrepreneur, 50 – who is known for fronting property development shows like Property Ladder – announced in August that she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer

Sarah Beeny has told how she kept her cancer diagnosis from her husband and kids because she “needed to handle it in [her] own head before telling them”.

The entrepreneur, 50 – who is known for fronting property development shows like Property Ladder – announced in August that she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer.

The presenter – who began chemotherapy a few months ago – cut off some of her hair prior to treatment and has since embraced going bald.

The telly favourite appeared on Loose Women to discuss her diagnoses with the panel.

She told how she had received her diagnosis 40 years after she lost her mum to the same disease when she was 10 years old and her mum just 39.

Sarah Beeny said she kept her cancer diagnosis from her husband and kids while ‘handling it in her own head first’
Sarah heartbreakingly told the ITV show: “I’ve waited my whole life for this diagnosis. I always expected it.”

She got regular checks all through her 20s and paid after the scheme shut down to have regular checks privately.

She told how she had recently had her standard age 50 mammogram but went back for another check after finding a lump.

“I hit 50 and I was diagnosed and was like ‘oh, here it is’. It was waiting for me,” Sarah said, telling how her mum’s diagnosis and death had haunted her since childhood and she’d always just “assumed” she’d get it.

“Trust your own body, go back again if you have a lump,” she advised viewers and the audience.

The property developer told how she went to her diagnosis appointment alone and waiting before telling her family.

The telly favourite appeared on Loose Women to discuss her diagnoses with the panel
The mum-of-four said: “I needed to handle it in my own head before telling them.”

Sarah recently spoke about having shaved her head after being diagnosed with cancer, saying that she now wants to challenge shame that’s associated with baldness.

Sarah recently told how she’s keen to “change [the] stereotype” around baldness, saying people can feel “ashamed” or be perceived as “victims” – though she wants to challenge such ideas.

Speaking to the Daily Mail ‘s Weekend magazine, she said people with no hair are often seen as “victims” and added that cancer patients are often “ashamed” to go bald.

The property developer told how she went to her diagnosis appointment alone and waiting before telling her family
Sarah said a lack of hair can be associated with victimhood and punishment, citing examples like Fantine in Les Misérables and Game of Thrones’ Cersei Lannister.

She said: “People are ashamed of their bald heads. […] Why? If you’ve got breast cancer and you’re having treatment, the fact you have no hair is not a reason to be ashamed”.

Sarah – who debuted her shaved head in photos for the outlet – said: “I don’t want to be ashamed. I don’t want other people to feel ashamed. I want to change that stereotype.”

She had initially cut her hair short with the help of her sons Billy, 18, Charlie, 16, Raffey 14, and Laurie, 13. She posted about the experience on Instagram back in August.

She announced that she had donated her locks to charity the Little Princess Trust, which provides real hair wigs to children and young people who have lost their hair.

Just a few weeks later, Sarah revealed on the social media platform that she had shaved her head after her hair began to fall out in clumps amid chemotherapy.

Discussing the experience with Weekend magazine, she said that it was “really traumatic” when her hair began to fall out after she had started the treatment following her diagnosis.

She recalled that she cried over it and said that she ended up shaving her head shortly afterwards. She has since tattooed her eyebrows in case they fall out in the future.

Sarah – who now has a collection of wigs at home – said that her cancer is fast growing, but explained that there is no evidence that it has spread to her lymph nodes.

And she is said to have been keeping busy with various projects, including working on a new book about her life as well as a Channel 4 documentary about her cancer.

Charlene White has revealed she has been getting I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here advice from her Loose Women co-star Linda Robson ahead of her jungle stint

Charlene White has been getting I’m A Celebrity advice from her Loose Women co-star Linda Robson.

The ITV news presenter has revealed what advice her co-stars have been giving to her ahead of the launch of the ITV show, which begins on Sunday evening. Charlene is joining nine other celebrities in the Australian jungle.

Ahead of the new series, she has revealed just what advice her co-stars had been giving her, and admitted some of them would be likely to vote her in for the trials. However, she insisted one of the panellists would be kind to her and do all they could to make sure she wasn’t subjected to the worst of the Bushtucker trials.

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Asked by The Mirror if any other celebrities had given her some advice, she said: “Yes, Linda Robson suggested that I try and sneak sleeping pills into my bra. Allegedly, she did that when she did this.

“But I will not – and I’ve got a producer staring at me – I definitely will not be doing that.”

Charlene is a staple on Loose Women lunchtimes, and she has admitted some of them will be desperate to see her doing the trials.

“You know what, there’s a chance that they would vote for me to do it. I find it really funny. Like I think Coleen [Nolan] would find it really funny, Denise [Welch] would definitely find it really funny. I think Nadia definitely wouldn’t,” she revealed.

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“Nadia [Sawalha] would be very much like no, we can’t put her through that. Janet [Street Porter] probably would make me to do it. So I think she’d absolutely kill herself laughing. So be it’d be less about trying to talk to me and more about them thinking it well, you know, it would absolutely crack them up that evening.”

Being on the ITV show panel, Charlene feels she is “quite outspoken by nature” – and hasn’t ruled out telling off any of the celebrities.

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“I’m not saying that I’m going to be yelling at people and interrogating them or anything like that but I have a genuine love of sitting and talking to people, that’s why I do the jobs that I do.”

She added: “Just because somebody’s a celebrity doesn’t mean that they can’t get a telling off from me.”

Loose Women star Sophie Morgan discussed how abusive can manifest in relationships for disabled people, as she recalled being ‘left in the sea for hours’ when chatting on the ITV show

Sophie Morgan has recalled a shocking incident that occured in a past relationship during today’s edition of Loose Women.

Sophie gave examples of how disabled people can be vulnerable when it comes to being subjected to physical and emotional abuse and shared her own experience – telling the Loose Women audience how she was once ‘left in the sea’ for hours’ in a past relationship.

The award-winning disability advocate, 37, spoke on the ITV show ahead of her new documentary airing, in which she investigates how disabled abuse victims are being ‘let down by police’ on tonight’s installment of Dispatches on Channel 4.

Sophie was just 18 when she was involved in a car crash that left her instantly paralysed from the chest down in 2003.

Sophie Morgan spoke about her new documentary on today’s edition of Loose Women ( 
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The star was hospitalised and rehabilitated for about three months and now uses a wheelchair as a result of a spinal injury.

Speaking with co-stars Janet Street-Porter, Jane Moore and Coleen Nolan on this week’s first offering of Loose Women, Sophie explained how disabled people can suffer abuse from their romantic partners.

“Say for example, I get into an argument with a boyfriend and they take my wheelchair away from me which would leave me stuck and dependant on them – very intimating.

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“Or we have a row they put things out of reach…. I got left in the sea once for hours, so there was specific abuse around the fact I had a physical disability but then there was the tolerating of certain behaviours that I tolerated because I have a disability.

She continued to say: “I had internalised this message ‘you’re disabled it’s all that… it’s not that you deserve it but just get on with it’.”

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Tonight’s episode of Dispatches on Channel 4 will see Sophie exploring the shocking statistic that one in seven disabled people experience domestic violence compared to one in 20 non-disabled people.

“Some of the stories we heard I don’t think I will ever forget. It was really heartbreaking,” said in an interview early this month when discussing the upcoming programme.

“We spoke to various survivors to try and unpack how abuse affects people with different disabilities in different ways.”

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Sophie lives her life with ‘no regrets’ following the accident ( 
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c4)Speaking earlier this year, Sophie compared the “two different lives” she has led, as both a disabled and non-disabled person, and confessed she doesn’t live her life “with regret or remorse”.

“Non-disabled and disabled are very different experiences,” she told OK! magazine in March.

“It does feel like two different lives. The person I became after my injury is very different to the person I was. I’ve grown up, obviously, as I was a kid, but those two realities, personalities, identities definitely feel very split.”

Loose Women airs weekdays from 12.30pm on ITV and ITVHub

*If you need help, call the National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247 – it’s run by charity Refuge and the free number is in operation 24 hours a day

Janet Street Porter offered up her own experience of unexpectedly coming on her period, when the panel erupt into anarchy and hysterics as the panellists bantered back and forth

Loose Women ramped up the savagery today as banter on the panel got out of hand.

One of the day’s discussions turned to tennis bosses at Wimbledon finally deciding to relax the “whites” dress code for players.

Competitors will still be required to wear all-white clothes on top but the All England Club will allow coloured underwear in 2023 to consider the issues some female players may have with their menstrual cycles.

The break from long standing tradition was hot topic for the Loose Women as they hailed the rule change as a long overdue breakthrough.

Loose Women ramped up the savagery today as banter on the panel got out of hand

Janet Street Porter offered up her own experience of unexpectedly coming on her period, when the panel erupt into anarchy and hysterics as the panellists bantered back and forth.

“I’m going to walk to the toilet as if it’s perfectly natural to walk like that with my legs together,” Janet demonstrated as she pretended to hold a newspaper over her bum to hide a leak on her way to the loo.

“It happened to me once in a very posh London restaurant…” she began.

“What your legs together?” Coleen interjected, much to the amusement of the audience. “Come on she’s been married four times!” the ITV star went on as the audience and panel burst into laughter.

Janet branded Coleen a ‘pig person’

Coleen interjected with a savage dig, much to the amusement of the audience
“Ok, pig person,” Janet quipped back, referencing a later show talking point about being “piggy in the middle” in arguments between others.

“Stop it! It’ll be in the magazines,” Coleen cackled.

“Alright, all I’m saying is that every woman watching this will have had that moment, that leakage moment. And it’s not something that happens like it does in the ads.”

Elsewhere on today’s episode, Sarah Beeny joined the panel to discuss her cancer diagnosis and how she kept it from her husband and kids because she “needed to handle it in [her] own head before telling them”.

The entrepreneur, 50 – who is known for fronting property development shows like Property Ladder – announced in August that she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Former Love Island star Olivia Attwood has hit out at the ‘misogynistic’ rumours behind her I’m A Celebrity exit after learning of them on social media once she was given her mobile phone back

Olivia Attwood has spoken out for the first time since her shock early exit from this year’s I’m A Celebrity, which left viewers confused and speculating over the reason for her departure.

The former Love Island star hit out at one such rumour – that she was pregnant – describing the false claim as ‘misogynistic’.

Within 24 hours of jumping out of a helicopter alongside radio DJ Chris Moyles and carrying out her first challenge in the jungle alongside Loose Women’s Charlene White, the 31-year old found herself being rushed to Aussie A&E by concerned doctors and ITV staff.

Speaking to Mail Online, Olivia said the drama came about as a result of a routine blood test, which all campmates undergo randomly throughout the course of the show.

And unfortunately for Olivia her test showed she was dangerously anaemic, as well as having low sodium and potassium levels, which sadly aren’t conducive to jungle life.

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“The results were really, really low when they put them into their reader and they consulted with another doctor off site,” she explained. “I had those bloods done in England before I left, and they were fine. I was confused and of course very, very worried.”

She added: “I was so scared, I was like “what the hell is wrong with me?’. ‘They couldn’t give me an answer, they just told me that they had to get me to the hospital immediately.”

Despite all of this Olivia said she was feeling ‘fine’.

What she wasn’t fine about, however, was the immediate aftermath in which several incorrect rumours began to circulate on social media.

One suggested Olivia’s ADHD – which she was diagnosed with several years ago – would affect her ability to live in camp.

Another suggested that by visiting hospital she had broken a Covid bubble and it wouldn’t be safe for her to reunite with her fellow contestants.

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But the star was really riled by rumours she described as ‘misogynistic’ that she’d realised she was too weak for the show or that she was pregnant.

After repeating her blood tests in Australia, results came back fine paving the way for her return – or so she thought.

Instead ITV bosses took her to a hotel to get some rest, leaving her confused whilst staff discussed what would happen next.

Unfortunately a knock on her room’s door the next morning by a producer led to the news that the broadcaster wasn’t willing to risk her return on the grounds that if her low levels dropped again ‘it could be detrimental to her health and wellbeing’. And as ITV wasn’t willing to authorise her return, she couldn’t be insured.

Distraught, Olivia flew back to England to be with family and her Blackburn Rovers footballer boyfriend Brad Dack. Prior to the flight she was given her phone back and she began to read about what the I’m A Celeb audience was speculating about her exit, much of which, she says, felt misogynistic.

“I mean, I saw on Twitter that I was pregnant. I’m not. There is an underlying misogynistic feel to the rhetoric,” she explained.

“They’re saying, ‘I bet she fainted’ or ‘I bet she was scared of sleeping outside’ or that ‘she didn’t fancy it because it was raining’. The reason it was so frustrating is because I am the complete opposite of that – and to make it more irritating, people could see on the show that I was absolutely loving it.

“There was nothing I would have said no to in the jungle. I loved it from the first hour and I was embracing every moment of it. I’m a nature geek, so I loved seeing all the bugs, and I even saw a kangaroo.”

Stacey Solomon has said that she was conflicted over Matt Hancock being on I’m A Celebrity. Stacey and her husband Joe Swash have both won the ITV series, but she said that she was unsure whether or not she would stay in camp if she was in this year

Stacey Solomon has called Matt Hancock’s presence on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! a “kick in the face”.

Joining her Loose Women co-hosts, Stacey waded into the debate over whether the former health secretary should have accepted the gig in the first place.

She hit out at the politician for ignoring the social distancing guidelines that he had implemented, and the excuse he made on the show for discarding them.

During last night’s show, Babatunde Aleshe asked Matt how he’s been and after the MP confessed that it had been tough, he added: “Because you messed up”.

“I messed up and I fessed up,” Matt replied, “before adding that he ‘fell in love’”.

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“You didn’t just fall in love, you were grabbing the booty,” Babatunde laughed.

But Stacey wasn’t impressed with this and explained to the audience how she couldn’t understand why people cheat.

“He’s sitting there, I dunno, like I love my grandma, I didn’t get to see her for two and a half years and I wasn’t snogging her,” she fumed.

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“I almost feel like it’s a bit of a kick in the face,” the mum-of-four added.

She wasn’t alone in her thoughts on the matter after Carol McGiffin said she was “disgusted” that he was on the ITV primetime show.

Responding to Nadiya’s claims that he was a “hapless fool”, Carol said: “He’s not a fool. He’s doing a party political broadcast still, while he’s in there.

“It shouldn’t be allowed. I’m disgusted that he’s in there. I’m absolutely disgusted.”

Carol has refused to watch it until Matt is voted off.

“I totally get where you’re coming from so I don’t think you’re weird,” Stacey told Carol.

Carol replied: “With the Matt thing?”

“I get it, it’s a hard one,” Stacey confessed.

Stacey won the 10th series of the show in 2010, and her husband Joe Swash was also crowned King of the Jungle in 2008.

Kay Adams said that she was impressed by how the contestants handled Matt joining the group, but Stacey was unsure how she would cope if she were in their shoes.

“I don’t know what I’d do if I was a campmate in there,” Stacey said.

“It must be so hard for them this year.

“Some of them have gone in there to boost their careers, some have gone in for money reasons,” she added.

“Whatever reason we decide to do the show for, and you know that is going to be completely dictated by someone else now.”

Earlier this year, Charlene White burst into tears as she recalled burying her aunt during the pandemic, months before she found herself opposite Matt Hancock on I’m A Celeb

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’s Charlene White was in tears discussing her aunt’s death during an emotional segment earlier this year.

The 42-year-old and the Loose Women panellists were discussing Boris Johnson’s lockdown parties following his apology in January.

She told Linda Robson, Nadia Sawalha and Carol McGiffin about the day she had to bury her beloved aunt.

Discussing the tragic moment on the ITV show which aired in January, she said: “My family stuck by the rules. We had to bury family members without being able to hug each other. I had to sit in a crematorium where my aunt was buried.

“Because I wasn’t living in the same household as my brother and sister and my dad, I was in a pew by myself with my baby daughter on my lap as we’re all in floods of tears and we can’t hug each other.”

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She cried some more as she explained: “I stood by the graveside as grave diggers were filling that grave and watching my cousin in floods of tears and not being able to hug her because we were following the rules because we didn’t know what else to do.

“We were told we had to follow the rules so we were following the rules with the understanding that those in charge were also doing the same thing.”

Charlene admitted Boris’ decision to attend the event made her rethink her actions that day.

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“I just think, should I have just hugged my cousin?” she explained through tears, as she added, “If we weren’t all supposed to follow the rules, should have I just hugged my cousin?”

Meanwhile, Charlene is currently taking part in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! alongside the Chester-born MP.

The broadcaster called Matt out for socialising with somebody outside of his household bubble during the lockdown, which eventually cost him, his job.

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ITV/REX/Shutterstock)When Hancock said that it was a “mistake” that he broke his own “guidelines” rather than the law, Charlene hit out saying: “It’s massively bigger than that. My aunt died from Covid in the first wave. So, we couldn’t go to the hospital to go and visit her. I had to sit by myself in the church at her funeral.

“We couldn’t hug each other because we were following guidance. And I get that you fell in love, I understand all of those things, but sorry for a lot of families like mine doesn’t really cut it.”

Matt said: “Yeah. Well, there you go. That’s one of the reasons that I regret it as much as I do.”

 

Carol McGiffin wasn’t at all impressed with Matt Hancock’s decision to join I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here. The Loose Women panellists shared their views on the

Loose Women star Carol McGiffin has said that she’s “disgusted” by Matt Hancock’s decision to join I’m A Celebrity and is refusing to watch the programme.

Last night 9.1million people were glued to the television as the former health secretary stumbled into the camp.

He was joined by comedian Seann Walsh and not long after meeting his campmates, Loose Women’s Charlene White took him aside and questioned his motives.

Nadia Sawalha said how she nearly didn’t watch the programme, but ended up caving and explained how she spent the first five minutes laughing.

“I think part of that was Seann Walsh’s absolute relief that another cheater was with him, so the heat was going to be taken off him.”

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Seann burst out laughing when he met Matt for the first time, and Nadia said that she thinks his reaction was “almost relief”.

Nadia said how she “couldn’t stop laughing” as she watched the programme, adding that she had “tears rolling down her face”.

But the other panellists didn’t share her opinion on the controversy.

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Carol looked uncomfortable as Nadia talked about how much she enjoyed last night’s episode.

Nadia did add that her opinions changed after Charlene stuck some tough questions to Matt, which saw him explain why he thought it was alright to leave parliament because: “Rishi is a really good guy”.

She called Matt an “egotistical hapless fool” and said that it just highlights the hands that the country was in during the pandemic.

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Carol jumped in and said: “He’s not a fool. He’s doing a party political broadcast still, while he’s in there.

“It shouldn’t be allowed. I’m disgusted that he’s in there. I’m absolutely disgusted.”

Judi Love said that she believes the country can sometimes be tricked into thinking that politicians are “bumbling fools”, but she argued that they are “confident” and “groomed to do this from when they were young”.

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James Gourley/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)She said that they know how to “perform” and she said that she could see how “privileged” Matt was.

The comedian added: “The fact the country is in disaray and we are going through all this stuff like strikes and nurses and what happened in the pandemic and he can sit there, in a show, where he is being paid and still turn around and say “everything is alright”.

“His true self will be shown,” Judi added.

Carol raised her voice: “Oh what, and you haven’t seen it already?”

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She said: “If he had a shred of decency he wouldn’t have gone in.”

The 62-year-old said that if she was in the jungle she would have walked out.

“I would have said stuff your fee, I’m going. There’s no way I would share that space with that man.

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“And I know he’s not solely responsible but he is responsible for a hell of a lot of pain and anguish that people suffered in the last few years.”

“And now everyone is thinking it’s really funny because he’s got a couple of ants crawling on his head.

“It’s ruined,” she added.

TOWIE star Gemma Collins took to Instagram to show off her new short hairstyle to her followers as she teased changes ahead in her life with cryptic message in the caption

Gemma Collins has hinted that she is about to “change her life” after undergoing a sensational hair transformation.

The TOWIE star showed off her new look to her fans on Instagram as she hinted at some other big changes ahead in her life.

Gemma, 41, was gearing up for a glamorous night out at London’s Proud Cabaret with friends as she ditched her trademark long blonde extensions in favour of the sleek bobbed look.

She added a face-framing on-trend fringe to the hairdo, looking dramatically different to how fans are used to seeing her.

Feeling positive about her change of style Gemma captioned the post with a cryptic message about what is coming for her.

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She said: “A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”

Gemma showed off her slimmer figure stepping out to Proud Cabaret dressed in a black velvet trouser and wrap blazer co-ord.

She added an eye-catching sexy twist by layering a sheer black lace trimmed lingerie style top underneath the jacket as she grinned while enjoying her night out.

The blonde beauty also opted for a full face of glamorous makeup and added black polish to her fingernails, completing the look with a quilted Chanel mini cross body bag.

Gemma’s striking image change sparked a sea of admiring comments from her followers on the social media app – including many of her famous friends.

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Fans are used to seeing Gemma with long extensions ( 
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Meanwhile, Sam and Billie Faiers’ mum Suzie Wells also praised Gemma posting: “Love your hair looks beautiful.”

Former Love Island star Laura Anderson then exclaimed: “Omg Gemma I love it.”

Tallia Storm shared in the adoration as she gushed: “Oh my gosh wow! I love it!”

A further slew of celebs including Loose Women’s Judi Love and Gillian McKeith expressed their approval by posting heart and flame emojis.

Gemma has been slimming down steadily

Gemma has been scrimping due to the cost of living crisis
Gemma has recently opened up to her fans about the steps she is taking to save cash amid the cost of living crisis admitting that even the GC isn’t immune to feeling the squeeze in the current financial climate.

Talking on her podcast she said: “The cost of living crisis, yes I have the news on, I try not to but I said I’m going to spend October and November trying to make sensible cutbacks because if you look after the pennies they look after you,” she advised her listeners.

“I have done something with every meal time, I go into my cupboards and make some serious cutbacks like everyone else. It is scary, mortgages are going up, electrics going up. I’m telling everyone not to put the heating on in my house.

“I’m making sure every lights are off, I normally have every TV switched on in the room – not necessarily watching something, but I’d have TV on in one room, music on in the other, but I’ve really been mindful to cut back on all of that.”

Jane McDonald lost her fiancé Eddie Rothe to lung cancer in April 2021. She revealed her niece named her son after him

Jane McDonald revealed her niece named her son after her late fiancé Eddie Rothe.

The singer appeared on Loose Women to discuss life a year on from losing Ed to cancer in April 2021.

She told the panelists that she now has more ‘good days than bad’ and shared the exciting news of her niece’s new addition to the family.

After being questioned about the ‘cute new man in her life’, she revealed: “It’s just so beautiful. I can’t believe it.

“My niece Katie has had a little baby boy and they’ve called him Ed.”

The panelists and audience awed as they shared a snap of the gorgeous baby boy on screen.

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Jane continued: “I’m loving it and relishing it and spending time with Katie and Tom, you know, and my family and just seeing this bundle, this new life.”

She was asked whether it was emotional when she discovered her niece was naming her son Ed.

“It was and it was just a credit to how much they thought about him. It’s just a lovely thing to do he’s just got the best name. I just think it’s fabulous.”

Jane met her late fiancé, who was the drummer in The Searchers, at a club in Wakefield in 1980.

The singer, who was 17 at the time, and Eddie got along like a house on fire but they parted after a few months of dating.

They didn’t see each other again until they were reunited in 2008, and they quickly struck up a relationship.

During the same year, Eddie got down on one knee.

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Speaking about Ed being diagnosed with cancer, she recently explained: “It’s a shock when your partner becomes ill. And it’s just a shock to your system completely. And I think it’s made me realise actually, how many summers have we got left.

“And I want to do so much. I want to go on holiday, instead of filming one. I want to you know, I want to write, I want to be creative. I want to have time in my lovely home.

“You know, and I want to be here for my family. You know, my, my niece is just about to have a baby. And we’re all very excited about that.

” And I want to be around, I want to be around for them all just for a while to like sort myself out and then stop working as much as I do. Because I work constantly.”

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