, with Stacey explaining over a voiceover that ‘Dilly can’t be with us this week so I’ve asked my mate Sophie Hinch to muck in.’
‘The episode ‘reminds me of how poorly I was and how much pain I was in when this episode was filmed.‘I had just come out of hospital following major surgery to remove the cancer and my entire reproductive system. I obviously could not film so was so grateful someone could step in. But I was also so sad to miss it!’
And two weeks later, she learned the fibroids had been tested for cancer, revealing she had stage one cancer of the womb She and husband Charley had been trying for a baby, however a radical hysterectomy was required to stop the cancer from spreading, leading Dilly to go into an immediate medically-induced menopause.Dilly underwent the radical hysterectomy in December – around the time as Thursday’s Sort Your Life Out episode was filmed – and found out later the cancer had gone from stage one to stage three and had spread, requiring lymph nodes as well as her womb to be removed.