{"id":529663,"date":"2026-07-02T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529663\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:27:08","slug":"lisa-faulkner-diagnosed-with-early-stage-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529663\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Faulkner diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actress Lisa Faulkner, the wife of presenter John Torode, has said she had surgery after being diagnosed with the early stages of breast cancer.<\/p>\n

The EastEnders and Holby City actress, 54, revealed on Tuesday that she underwent the procedure two weeks ago and she has since had the all-clear from her doctors.<\/p>\n

She said she still needs to undergo radiotherapy.<\/p>\n

However, Faulkner reassured her 372,000 followers on Instagram that she is feeling better.<\/p>\n

She said: “I’ve had to have surgery because I’ve had the very early stages of breast cancer.<\/p>\n

“I had surgery two weeks ago, and it was quite a big op, but it’s all good, and I’ve had my results back, and they’ve got everything out, and so it’s all clear, and I just need now to have some radiotherapy in a few weeks.<\/p>\n

“I’ve still got quite a bit of healing to do, but I’m good, I’m well, and feeling so much better.”<\/p>\n

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\nLisa Faulkner and John Torode in London in November 2023<\/p>\n

She urged others to go for check-ups, adding that if she had not gone for her breast screening, the cancer would not have been picked up.<\/p>\n

“I am so grateful that I went for my mammogram,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Don’t put them off, go, because they found this, and without that mammogram, it wouldn’t have been picked up.”<\/p>\n

Faulkner ended her video by thanking the “wonderful NHS” for the scan and early treatment.<\/p>\n

The actress married the former MasterChef presenter in 2019.<\/p>\n

The news comes nearly a year after Torode was sacked from the cooking competition show after an allegation that he used “highly offensive racist language” was upheld in a review looking into his former co-presenter Gregg Wallace, who was also fired due to alleged misconduct.<\/p>\n

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