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Sarah Beeny

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Softoprider · 13/06/2023 15:10

I watch her programmes on TV, particularly the latest one about the house she built in Somereset (I think). It seems to me that she is on the TV a lot with new programmes all about property. I get that she makes good telly but I wince when the husband and the sons are interviewed - particularly the husband who does not seem to have a job but has plenty to say.
This latest programme I watched last night about her breast cancer made me feel very uncomfortable and sad.
She's got cancer, she has had chemo and a double mastectomy and yet she made light of it with the sons cutting her hair and the husband talking as if it were something and nothing. When her hair fell out and she cried so did I. I just wish she could have kept this part of her life private and not used the awfulness of it all to make money.
I do hope she makes a full recovery as I like her but this was all too damn much and for anyone else suffering from breast cancer I hope they find it as easy as she appeared to make it but I doubt it.
The husband makes me cringe. Sorry but he does. He's not famous but you wouldn't know it

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Rightyouare83 · 13/06/2023 15:13

I. I just wish she could have kept this part of her life private and not used the awfulness of it all to make money.

oh heavens you sound unpleasant

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Softoprider · 13/06/2023 15:14

I don't mean to be. It made me very sad

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Rightyouare83 · 13/06/2023 15:14

Pause for a minute m
you have started a thread about a Tv present that you like and watch
to garner opinion as to whether she was too open about her breast cancer

just pause

do you think that’s a nice way to behave?

Rightyouare83 · 13/06/2023 15:15

Softoprider · 13/06/2023 15:14

I don't mean to be. It made me very sad

You say you wished she’d kept it quiet rather than “make money” out of it.

yes your “sadness” is very obvious 😂

scrantonelectriccity · 13/06/2023 15:15

I just wish she could have kept this part of her life private and not used the awfulness of it all to make money.

Isn't that up to her though?

Rightyouare83 · 13/06/2023 15:16

Softoprider · 13/06/2023 15:14

I don't mean to be. It made me very sad

Not just sad op

made me feel very uncomfortable

Thethruththewholetruth · 13/06/2023 15:16

It annoyed me a little too. I made the best of it when I had it and was as positive as I could be but she did seem to be making light of it. She doesn’t have the worries I had, worrying about hospital admissions as I wouldn’t get paid for time off work as I’d used all my sick pay etc. I was actually Ill health retired as mine was so a severe so lost my job and the after effects of the surgery I needed still plague me to this day. I get she had an easy ride, I’m glad about that but it’s just not normal life, she has huge support from her husband who doesn’t work and the kids who seem to do nothing either 🤷‍♀️ just a bit tasteless imo

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Softoprider · 13/06/2023 15:16

I did not like the programme at all. It was insensitive to other cancer sufferers

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MissAmbrosia · 13/06/2023 15:16

I love her husband and her kids. It's very how the other half live though. I don't see any issue with her wanting to talk about her cancer story. Her mum died young.

Orchidflower1 · 13/06/2023 15:18

Opened this thread thinking it maybe someone saying how brave she was to share her story or spread awareness but no it was @Softoprider here for a b!tch- shame on you.

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Softoprider · 13/06/2023 15:18

@Thethruththewholetruth

Yes, this is what I am talking about. It was not reality. It made light of an awful situation which it is.

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Softoprider · 13/06/2023 15:20

@Orchidflower1

You are wrong ! I am not bitching at all

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Rightyouare83 · 13/06/2023 15:20

Softoprider · 13/06/2023 15:18

@Thethruththewholetruth

Yes, this is what I am talking about. It was not reality. It made light of an awful situation which it is.

It was HER reality

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gogohmm · 13/06/2023 15:21

Her husband is an artist.

I've been watching her for 20 years.

I liked her documentary on her cancer journey

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SirSidneyRuffDiamond · 13/06/2023 15:23

Making TV programmes is her job. It's how she makes an income and provides for her family. It is no different from anyone else continuing their job through a bout of ill-health.

Thethruththewholetruth · 13/06/2023 15:24

Yes I get that but not a normal journey and I don’t see how watching someone privileged financially going through it helps someone on the breadline worrying about losing their home as they can’t work etc helps?
Would have made me feel like shit and inadequate tbh

TheDogsMother · 13/06/2023 15:26

I didn't think of it as her making money out of the situation. She's lived her life expecting the same illness that took her mother when Sarah was just 10, which is pretty awful in itself. She was exploring the differences in treatment then and now and I found it very interesting. I don't know what her husband's working status has to do with all this though.

SirenSays · 13/06/2023 15:27

You watched her other shows. You know who she is and that she's a wealthy celebrity so surely you knew what to expect and if you didn't like it, you could have watched something else.

justgettingthroughtheday · 13/06/2023 15:27

Softoprider · 13/06/2023 15:16

I did not like the programme at all. It was insensitive to other cancer sufferers

No it wasn't!!!!

Holy crap the only insensitive one is yourself!!!

I say this as someone going through cancer myself.

I have just watched it through twice this morning.
I laughed with them, cried with them and thought it a good representation of what HER experience with cancer has been.

Bugger off with your judgment!!!

MissyB1 · 13/06/2023 15:29

Softoprider · 13/06/2023 15:16

I did not like the programme at all. It was insensitive to other cancer sufferers

I think us “sufferers” will make up our own minds about that thanks.

Pringleface · 13/06/2023 15:29
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Groutyonehereagain · 13/06/2023 15:29

I’ve had cancer and I can tell you that everyone deals with it in their own way. Being diagnosed with cancer is indescribably awful. Please don’t judge Sarah Beeny @Softoprider , you have no clue what she’s really going through.