TV presenter Sarah Beeny begins treatment for breast cancer

Sarah Beeny has revealed she is undergoing treatment for breast cancer and will have surgery and undergo radiotherapy in the new year.

Despite her diagnosis, the entrepreneur said she would continue to work and is focused on a new Channel 4 series and book she has planned for later in the year. The 50-year-old broadcaster and property expert began a course of chemotherapy last week.

Beeny told the Daily Telegraph that she had “a little bit of a breakdown” after receiving the news about her diagnosis in a hospital consultation room. She told the newspaper: “I’m lucky because I live in a family where we all talk.”

The broadcaster added that she plans to draw on her “inner strength” throughout her treatment process.

Beeny, who has four sons, lost her mother to breast cancer when she was 10 years old. She 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.

In 2010, Beeny began to chart the renovation of Rise Hall, a Grade II-listed stately home in Rise, east Yorkshire, as part of the Channel 4 series Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare.

The presenter and her husband, Graham Swift, an artist, worked to renovate Rise Hall as a family home and wedding venue and sold the property in 2019.

In March, she revealed that she was leaving London to move to a seven-bedroom house in Somerset with Swift and their sons.

The couple bought a 90-hectare (220-acre) sheep farm in 2018 and Beeny later said she had decided to make the move permanent after considering her children’s education.

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