{"id":110208,"date":"2025-09-01T05:40:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110208\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T05:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:40:26","slug":"magda-szubanski-beloved-kath-and-kim-star-shares-cancer-update-and-sweet-message-to-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110208\/","title":{"rendered":"Magda Szubanski: Beloved Kath and Kim star shares cancer update and sweet message to fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Kath and Kim star Magda Szubanski has shared an emotional message from her hospital bed as she undergoes treatment for a fast-moving blood cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">In a video posted to Instagram, the beloved actor and comedian thanked a young fan for brightening her day, candidly revealing that the chemotherapy is \u201csmackin\u2019 (her) around right now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThis is a special shout-out to little 10-year-old Annabella Willis in Adelaide,\u201d Szubanski said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3mk41m-StyledText eze0guv9\">Sign up to The Nightly&#8217;s newsletters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1r9pdr5-StyledSubText eze0guv8\">Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>By continuing you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/thenightly.com.au\/subscription-terms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevenwestmedia.com.au\/privacy-policies\/privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cDarling, thank you so much for your \u2018impressionation\u2019 of Sharon Strzelecki. I\u2019m in here having chemo, and it really cheered me up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI\u2019m very touched and that was a beautiful thing to do, thank you my sweet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cChemo is smackin\u2019 me around right now and you really cheered me up. Bless you, my darling,\u201d she added in the video\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Friends of the star quickly filled the comments with messages of love and support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cSending all the love in the world to you, Magda darling,\u201d wrote celebrity chef Nigella Lawson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Model Megan Gale added, \u201cSending an abundance of love and strength to you, Magda,\u201d while British comedian and actor Dawn French simply wrote, \u201cLove love love x.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Annabella\u2019s mother Rachel told <a class=\"css-hwy1qg-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/education\/magda-szubanski-sends-hospital-bed-message-to-waikerie-primary-school-student-for-book-week-sharon-strezlecki-tribute\/news-story\/bf6071f8412769c96bafb89a01f7ec7c\">The Advertiser<\/a> that the family was left a \u201cblubbering mess\u201d when they heard that Szubanski had seen her daughter\u2019s impression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Szubanski was diagnosed with stage four Mantle Cell Lymphoma in May. She has been receiving \u201cworld-class care\u201d in Melbourne after it was discovered incidentally via a breast screening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The 64-year-old was recently inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame and brought the room to tears with her heartbreaking speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe love and support that I have felt, like a tsunami, from the Australian public, it has been overwhelming and I have to tell you, it really helps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">She broke down in tears as she thanked those around her for their support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI did not think I was going to cry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWhen I go online and look at those messages, every time, my heart lifts. And I feel that much stronger to deal with the cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cSo thank you for the love that you are pouring my way, I really feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kath and Kim star Magda Szubanski has shared an emotional message from her hospital bed as she undergoes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,2331,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-110208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}