{"id":737316,"date":"2026-08-14T02:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737316\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T02:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:42:20","slug":"the-office-star-lucy-davis-thanks-fans-for-kindness-after-incurable-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737316\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office star Lucy Davis thanks fans for ‘kindness’ after incurable cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Truly, I am in shock. That said, thank you to everyone for the tremendous amount of kindness and support you have sent me. Good grief it was emotional,” she said<\/p>\n

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\"Lucy<\/p>\n

Lucy shared that she first discovered a “tiny, hard spot” in her breast a year ago.<\/p>\n

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Actress Lucy Davis has thanked fans for their \u201ckindness and support\u201d after she revealed she had been diagnosed with incurable breast cancer.<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old The Office star revealed her condition on Tuesday, saying she \u201cdoesn\u2019t know how long she has left\u201d, and many friends and fans posted messages of support including former co-star Ricky Gervais and her father, comedian Jasper Carrott.<\/p>\n

In a post on Instagram, she said: \u201cOk, so the last two days have been utterly overwhelming, in that I had zero idea my cancer post would have the attention it did.<\/p>\n

\u201cTruly, I am in shock. That said, thank you to everyone for the tremendous amount of kindness and support you have sent me. Good grief it was emotional.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am trying to go through all the comments on my post \u2013 and I\u2019ll get there, just give me a bit of time.<\/p>\n

Read More: \u2018Love you so much, Lucy\u2019: Ricky Gervais leads outpouring of support for The Office star Lucy Davis after cancer diagnosis<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cAlso, to the couple of people who slightly misread the news and commented RIP, you\u2019ll be delighted to know I am still alive \u2013 hurrah.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post was accompanied by a video of Davis undertaking a skateboarding lesson with actor Malachi Barton, who appeared with her in Disney Channel comedy series The Villains Of Valley View, which she said she had posted to \u201clighten things up\u201d as she had \u201cno sporting ability whatsoever\u201d.<\/p>\n

When she revealed her diagnosis, Davis said she was diagnosed a year-and-a-half ago and the cancer has \u201cmetastasised\u201d to her bones including her spine, right hip and ribs, leaving it \u201ctoo late\u201d for chemotherapy.<\/p>\n

She wrote: \u201cAs of now, I\u2019m trying to live out whatever might be left of my life in as fun a way as I possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Office cast (from left) Martin Freeman, Lucy Davis, Ricky Gervais, MacKenzie Crook.<\/p>\n

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\"Lucy<\/p>\n

Lucy Davis in 2017, during press for Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n

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Davis added: \u201cI\u2019m not scared of whatever comes next. I\u2019m at peace with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her early career, Davis appeared in an episode of The Detectives, the comedy starring her father, and a 1995 production of Pride And Prejudice.<\/p>\n

Her breakthrough role came in 2001 when she was cast as Dawn Tinsley in The Office, created by Gervais and Stephen Merchant.<\/p>\n

She went on to appear in films including Shaun Of The Dead (2004) and Wonder Woman (2017), and played Hilda Spellman in the Netflix series the Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Truly, I am in shock. That said, thank you to everyone for the tremendous amount of kindness and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}