Great British Bake Off’s Sue Perkins Reveals She Has A Brain Tumour

Stephanie Soteriou

Sue Perkins terrified us when her most recent interview went live, with the beloved Great British Bake Off host revealing that she has been living with a brain tumour for the past eight years.

Thankfully, however, the growth is “benign” and nothing to worry too much about, with the star considering herself “lucky” when doctors discovered the growth on her pituitary gland whilst she was filming for a new TV show.

Speaking to Good Housekeeping, Sue explained: “I’m lucky that it’s benign so it’s not in itself a worrying thing.

“Sometimes it’s big and makes me mad, and sometimes it’s small and is in the background.

“Sometimes it screws up my hormones. I have various tests now to make sure the side effects aren’t too onerous.”

Despite the fact the tumour isn’t scary, the 45-year-old comedienne does think that the growth has prevented her from having children as it affects her hormone levels, adding: “We live in a time and place where we think everything is possible.

“I don’t know if I would have gone on to have children. But as soon as someone says you can’t have something, you want it more than anything.”

Sue is in a relationship with fellow TV personality Anna Richardson, and with them both being so wrapped up in their professional lives, Sue couldn’t help but find it ironic that the tumour was discovered whilst she was filming for a new show.

The star was undergoing routine medical tests for BBC health programme ‘The Supersizers’ when doctors told her the news, with Sue sharing: “I was at a point where I was spending so much of my life doing TV that I only found out about my real life through a television procedure.

“I didn’t have the time to go to the doctor in real life. That’s what really made me think that the balance in my life was wrong.”

Well, thank goodness that she did manage to see a doctor one way or another and that she is able to get the appropriate care needed to manage the growth.

We are just glad that, as scary as it sounds, it isn’t anything to worry about.