{"id":803589,"date":"2026-10-15T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803589\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:20:21","slug":"guernsey-actress-with-breast-cancer-diagnosis-back-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803589\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey actress with breast cancer diagnosis back on stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Legg found a lump in her breast and went to the doctor she &#8220;didn&#8217;t think much of it and neither did he&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;The lump I found wasn&#8217;t the cancer. The cancer was elsewhere so it was just one of those incredibly lucky diagnoses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Legg said after the &#8220;initial annoyance wore off&#8221; from the diagnosis, she was angry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;I&#8217;m healthy. I don&#8217;t smoke, I hardly drink, I do a lot of sport, and so I thought: &#8216;Wow, this feels unfair when you live your life in the way that you&#8217;re meant to.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Legg learned that breast cancer &#8220;can happen to anyone, it doesn&#8217;t discriminate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After three weeks of radiotherapy in Southampton, Legg is &#8220;back to doing what I love, which is singing and dancing&#8221; on stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is in now a play with the Guernsey Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Legg found a lump in her breast and went to the doctor she &#8220;didn&#8217;t think much of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803589","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=803589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}