Jennifer Saunders beats breast cancer

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
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Jennifer Saunders beats breast cancer
Jennifer Saunders beats breast cancer (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Jennifer Saunders has successfully battled breast cancer, it has been reported. The Absolutely Fabulous star, 52, has been given the all-clear after eight months of treatment, according to The Sun. Mother-of-three Jennifer is said to have found a lump in her breast last October, being diagnosed with cancer within days. She was apparently given the all-clear after her treatment finished in June, and is described as being in 'very good spirits'. Jennifer, who is best known for her work with comedy partner Dawn French, was pictured at Wimbledon last week wearing a wig and a bandanna. She is married to former Young Ones actor and writer Adrian Edmondson. They have three daughters, Ella, 24, Beatrice, 23, and Freya, who is 19.

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.