TV presenter Sarah Beeny in treatment for breast cancer

Sarah Beeny is having treatment for breast cancer, the TV star has revealed. The 50-year-old property presenter said she had “a little bit of a breakdown” after being diagnosed in a hospital consultation room.

Speaking to the the Telegraph, she said she began chemotherapy last week and will have a mastectomy and radiotherapy in the New Year. The TV presenter cut her hair off at the weekend with the help of her children and husband.

She said: “Graham was trying to cut it nicely, but the boys – well, they’re not going to be famous hairdressers. They said I looked like Cersei Lannister from Game of Thrones – I mean, she’s beautiful so I was sort of flattered, but my hair is now about a centimetre long in some places and it’s an inch long in others.”

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Sharing a post on Instagram on Tuesday morning (August 30) she wrote: “A little pile of not very good condition hair on it’s way to @officiallittleprincesstrust – my trainee hairdressers cut off my hair on Friday night – getting one step ahead after first chemo treatment for breast cancer on Friday – the exclusive club you’d rather not be a member of!”.

Despite her diagnosis, Beeny said she will continue to work and is focused on a new Channel 4 series and book she has planned for later this year. She added: “I’m lucky because I live in a family where we all talk.” She said she plans to draw on her “inner strength” throughout treatment.

When she was 10, Beeny lost her mother, 39, to breast cancer. She said of her own diagnosis: “The nurse was so sweet and they were really nice to me but I thought, ‘You don’t understand. I have waited 40 years to hear those words.’ I knew I was going to