No sooner had the 42-year-old heard that she had landed a plum job on a new BBC flagship programme than she was given the news that the cancer that has ravaged her body for the past 20 months had spread even further.

• 这位42岁的电视节目主持人在刚刚获悉自己在一个新的BBC压轴节目中谋得了一个好差事后不久，就被告知，过去20多个月里在她身上肆虐的癌细胞又进一步扩散了。