Sarah Beeny

[Softoprider]

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

This thread makes me more uncomfortable than any TV show a cancer sufferer could ever make.

You do you OP and let others do the same, without this awful nasty judgement.

I think you should be ashamed of yourself.

I think it can only be a positive thing that she talks openly about it. Whatever she says, that is her experience.

Not everyone responds the same way, I admire her honesty.

Breast cancer already has a huge awareness though, what about more publicity for the lesser known cancers ??

Both Sarah and her husband support themselves through self-employment/freelance work. Would some posters really rather they didn't continue to earn money just because they have been well-paid? Should anyone with cancer not work then if they have historically had a high income? Why?

I’m sorry that you’ve had to go through cancer and treatment. I’ve had breast cancer but was very fortunate not to have a mastectomy. I hope your health is okay now and fingers crossed for the future.

You're right, everyone is allowed an opinion. But there are lots of things that I might say to my husband or friends that I wouldn’t post online. Likewise, there are things I might say on an anonymous parenting forum that I wouldn’t share with my kids.

It sounds like you had a strong negative reaction to the documentary - linked, no doubt, to your own experience. But that may have been better shared with people close to you, rather than on an open online forum. It’s very hard to read your posts and see any good in them. The comments about her dc in particular could be seen as insensitive.

Well, let the people with more rare cancers publicise them. SB has done what she can from her experience.

I would have thought that women, who are predominantly the ones affected by breast cancer, would champion this brave, successful woman sharing her experience...sadly not.

Everyone deals with things in different ways - she can do what she likes. I have seen her husband on TV once a few years ago and he seemed fine to me.

I get where the OP is coming from . In this world of oversharing nothing seems personal and private anymore . We had Julia Bradbury do the same .
To me it's voyeurism and some macabre opportunity for glad it's not me viewing. Just like a macabre guilty pleasure over serial killer documentaries. Why would you want to see someone's suffering .
Having said that I didn't watch it just as it's Sarah's choice to put herself out there , we all have choices , accept of course whether with get bloody cancer .

I get that some of these programmes are made in an attempt to make other sufferers aware that they are not alone. And to promote awareness of a disease and how it may be prevented/slowed etc.

But I never watch any of them as I don't want true illness suffering foisted on me. And I am very cynical and wonder how much of it is just self centred and money grabbing. OK - grabbing cash for your survivors may be a very good thing in some ways but frankly I don't watch reality TV and this just seems very much the same to me.

I thought - as someone without experience of cancer myself - that it was very informative. I was interested in the medical progress and quite relieved with how things have progressed since her mothers prognosis.
Also, can you not see the irony of someone with a seemingly perfect life having just finished building her dream home to have the big C (that was always lurking in her genes) finally catch up with her and try to take her down?

Hasn't she just . The witches are out in force today .

Do you object to Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s documentary too because he’s not on the breadline?

Why does every topic have to become a bitch fest of nastiness? You may not agree with what the original poster has to say, but stop with the 'attacking'

her children all go to school. They obviously don't take the TV cameras to school!!!! @Thethruththewholetruth there have been plenty of times in her new house programmes where they've either been in school uniform, or come home from school etc.
I haven't watched her cancer documentary yet though. I do follow her on insta though and she has definitely been through the mill. Maybe the documentary makers chose to edit it in a positive way?

Insensitive?

When she lost her mother at such a young age? And that her mum had been involved in trials that may have helped with treatments

Why shouldn't she share that?

And to imply she only did it for the money is vile. She had a valid story to share

It was insensitive to other cancer sufferers

the beautiful irony of this twatsOP’s comment here

Oh OP, you really haven't done yourself any favours here. If you have watched her on TV over the years you will know that she is (and always has been) a very positive upbeat person, her husband and kids too (and frankly I love the way they all interact together). Her husband is incredibly supportive of her (and she of him) and I thought he absolutely did not make it sound like it was nothing at all, he made it clear he's struggled when he stated she was out of ear shot but that also his place there was to support her through it in any way he could and so I felt it was clear that trying to be light about it was the way they were choosing to deal with it (on camera). She dealt with it her way and Channel4 helped her along the way. Some people sound almost jealous that her journey is over (or at least I hope for her it is) and that she has healed well. I truly hope that's not the case.

I think she's dealing with it in the only way she can - her way.

And there's a strong chance she's done this to leave her family money to live on if the very worst happens. Can't knock her for that, she seems to be the breadwinner of the family.

She has amazing wigs in it - the darker colour suits her far more than her usual blonde!

I thought it was really good. I like her, and her husband. Think the house is a monstrosity though.

This thread is grotesque.

Surprised MN has allowed it to stand.

Please do not delete this thread. Everyone has their own way of dealing with breast cancer. I avoid TV programmes like this like the plague. I like SB and wish her well.

I enjoyed it.

Both mine and my partners dad recently got cancer diagnosis, had treatments and it's gone (both in their 70s)

So positive stories are good. I posted on Facebook today that I was off to first manogramne (as 50) it should be a normal part of life really.

Good God, i thought she had died!!! 😰 Why on earth put a thread like this on here OP?

YOU are the hater!!!

I cannot believe you are still defending your position!

You don’t get to say what someone else’s reality is. How dare you criticise her for not being emotional enough. She explained that being strong was her way of dealing with it. What a nasty judgmental thread.