The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer is back on our screens on Channel 4 on Sunday, April 2 with a new hoard of celebrities attempting to hone what baking skills they have and impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith - avoiding as many soggy bottoms as possible.
Taking to the tent and brushing up on their kitchen knowledge is actor David Morrissey, comedian Lucy Beaumont, diver and Olympic medallist Tom Daley and radio presenter Adele Roberts, who in 2021 shared the news that she had been diagnosed with stage 2 bowel cancer.
The show, she revealed in an Instagram post, is one she filmed while she was having chemotherapy treatment and said she "can't wait to watch it back" as she says she was receiving chemotherapy during filming and spent most of her time "delirious" so can't remember much of it. Urging her fans and followers - of which she has 210k on Instagram - to tune in and help raise awareness, she implored: "Let's all STAND UP TO CANCER!".
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The episode of the Stand Up To Cancer special comes just days after the 44-year-old from Stockport gave an update on her health and spoke on BBC breakfast about catching bowel cancer in its early stages. She wrote on social media: "EARLY DETECTION SAVES LIVES. I can’t tell everyone enough. This time last year I was being treated for #bowelcancer. A year on I feel so lucky to be alive."
She added that she was now weeks away from running the London Marathon and hopefully setting a Guinness World Record in the process - less than 12 months since stopping chemo.
"Chemotherapy is INTENSE to say the least. This time last year I could barely walk. My hands and feet are still battered from it, my blood still isn’t right - I get out of breath so quickly. I also have an ileostomy (while my large colon continues to heal) so I’m kind of running with my small intestine hanging out my stomach. (I still can’t believe how amazing stomas are - like how are they possible?!) It’s made training and fuelling for the marathon so much harder and complicated than I imagined… BUT… the chemo helped save my life and I shall remember that every step of the way."
Adele shot to fame after appearing on reality television show Big Brother 3 in 2002 alongside This Morning star Alison Hammond, the late Jade Goody and Kate Lawler. Now a regular Radio 1 and Radio 2 presenter, Adele is a television host for BBC sport and in 2019 was part of the team covering the London Marathon - something she has completed twice before - alongside Gabby Logan and Paula Radcliffe (among others).
In 2019, she added another reality show to her CV as she took part in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! A few months later, she and her partner, actress Kate Holderness, won E4's Celebrity Coach Trip.
Since revealing her cancer diagnosis, she has been giving regular updates, documenting how her treatment has been going - for example, sharing the details of her loop ileostomy (a stoma bag, which she named Audrey).
In June 2022, less than a year after her diagnosis, Adele shared the joyous news that she had been given the all-clear and was cancer free by sharing a picture of her with her doctor with a caption that began: "Angel on Earth. The day I’ve been waiting for.
"Hearing the words “you’re free of cancer” absolutely took my breath away. I keep replaying it in my mind. It was the most beautiful sound I think I’ve ever heard. Even though I was praying Dr Khan would say that to me I don’t think my head let me believe it until I heard it."
Adele has described Kate, who she first met in 2004 as her "strength" for supporting her throughout her cancer journey. Speaking exclusively to Hello! Magazine in June 2022, she said: "I've always loved Kate, but since my diagnosis I've seen a different side to her. She's my counsellor, my mentor and the best nurse ever. She helped me when I could barely walk and had to shuffle into work at Radio 1. She’s my absolute hero."
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer continues on Channel 4 on Sunday, April 2 at 7.40pm.
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