GBBO's Sue Perkins Reveals She Has Had A Brain Tumour For Eight Years
The Great British Bake Off presenter has assured fans that she is "fine"
The Great British Bake Off presenter has assured fans that she is "fine"
Presenter and comedienne Sue Perkins has had a brain tumour for eight years, and it has left her infertile.
The Great British Bake Off host has prolactinoma – a noncancerous tumour of the pituitary gland – one side effect of which is being unable to have children - but she has told her Twitter followers that nevertheless, she’s “fine”.
“Ta for sweet tweets about my prolactinoma. It’s benign & non-symptomatic. All fine, let’s focus on those less fortunate in the world X,” the 45-year-old tweeted.
Sue discovered the tumour eight years ago during a medical check up for her food documentary series The Supersizers with Giles Coren.
“I’m lucky that it’s benign so it’s not in itself a worrying thing. Sometimes it’s big and makes me mad, and sometimes it’s small and is in the background,” she told Good Housekeeping.
But while Sue assured well-wishers that her condition is under control, it's still had an impact on her life and wellbeing.
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“We live in a time and place where we think everything is possible. I don’t know if I would have gone on to have children. But as soon as someone says you can’t have something, you want it more than anything.”
Sue was worried that this side-effect could have a knock on relationship with her best friend and comedy partner of 27 years, Mel Giedroyc.
“When [Mel] had her first child I thought: this is an experience I won’t have or share. You’ve gone somewhere I can’t go.”
You think it is going to destroy something, but actually it hasn’t destroyed anything – we have very different lives and different experiences now.”
Sue is currently dating fellow TV presenter Anna Richardson. The pair knew each other for years but finally got together in 2013.
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