{"id":327171,"date":"2026-03-13T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/327171\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:22:09","slug":"ricky-gervais-partner-jane-fallon-diagnosed-with-breast-cancer-despite-having-no-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/327171\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais\u2019 partner Jane Fallon diagnosed with breast cancer &#8211; despite having \u2018no symptoms\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">The TV producer cannot wait for her surgery \u2013 which is scheduled for a fortnight\u2019s time \u2013 and she praised the medical staff\u2019s care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Fallon ended her post with: \u201cIt\u2019s been a lot, I\u2019m not going to lie. But, my surgery is scheduled for the week after next and I just want to get it over with now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m getting incredible care and all will be fine but I\u2019m not engaging with much beyond audiobooks + jigsaws tbh. Dr Eric on duty. Nurse Pickle wondering when lunch is (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Fallon was bombarded with love in the upload\u2019s comments section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Actress Kate Robbins, 67 \u2013 whose daughter is 36-year-old Rivals star Emily Atack \u2013 typed: \u201cCaught early is KEY. Thanks for letting us know \u2026 Sending love xxxxx (sic)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Comedian Dawn French, 68, left a string of heart emojis, as did 49-year-old comic Alan Carr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">And soap actress Lucy Benjamin, 55, wrote: \u201cSending love and strength Jane\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Fallon\u2019s followers also left well-wishes as one person commented: \u201cSending you so much love and keeping you and good energy in my thoughts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">A second supporter left: \u201cOh mate. Sending you all our love and positive vibes. Xx (sic)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">And a third user reacted: \u201cOh I\u2019m glad they caught it early. Sending you lots of love and hugs. Take time to relax and chill out. You\u2019ll have the best nurses with Ricky and Pickle looking after you. (sic)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Fallon and Gervais have been in a long relationship since they first met as students at University College London back in 1982, and moved in together two years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">And she credits their strong bond to never wanting \u201cexactly the same thing\u201d in terms of their careers, which meant there was no jealousy even as she started to move up the ranks in TV production before he found success as a comedian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Appearing on a January episode of the Second Act podcast, Jane said: \u201cHe was just always really pleased for me because I wasn\u2019t raining on his parade. And I was helping us get out of the [financial] ditch we were in\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">She added: \u201cWe did want to do totally different things, and also, with what happened to him, it was really helpful what my career had been because he wasn\u2019t entering this alien, glamorous world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI knew that TV was a really hard slog, and it wasn\u2019t all people running around having parties and having fun. You work long hours, and I understand the process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The TV producer cannot wait for her surgery \u2013 which is scheduled for a fortnight\u2019s time \u2013 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2831,2534,430,127,797,176199,156,30799,151358,1360,20836,9851,111,139,7805,69,5502,83430,12072,102],"class_list":["post-327171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-breast","tag-cancer","tag-celebrities","tag-despite","tag-diagnosed","tag-earlystage","tag-entertainment","tag-fallon","tag-gervais","tag-having","tag-jane","tag-longtime","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-no","tag-nz","tag-partner","tag-ricky","tag-symptoms","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}