News about Anna Chancellor

Anna, joined by other relatives, posted a note on her daughter's social media on which they referred to her daughter's "unbelievable life force." They also praised Royal Marsden Hospital staff in London who cared for Poppy, and sent a note of support to those who are facing similar ordeals. 'To all of Poppy's most cherished and much-loved family members.' We send you this letter with our deepest love.'

RICHARD EDEN: This striking photograph of the 36-year-old illustrator and paper-cut artist who revealed last month that she had been diagnosed with white blood cells cancer has been shared. While her relatives lay their hands on her, she is shown lying on a mattress covered in flower petals. 'Healing Ceremonies with my witches/besties/comrades,' she says jokingly. 'Thank you for supporting me.' 'I have been diagnosed with leukaemia after three weeks of multiple infections in hospital,' Poppy, whose father, the East Lothian-born poet Jock Scot, died of cancer in 2016 aged 63.' I'm still mourning my heartbreak.' She has shaved her trademark 'bob' hairstyle' in preparation for chemotherapy. 'Chemo is on hand,' she says. 'Said goodbye to the bob today, at the end of an age.' I'm grieving for my life before diagnosis, and getting to terms with all the bruises and needles is a challenge.'

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Anna Chancellor (left of left picture), who is best known as unlucky-in-love in the classic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral, has received some troubling news in real life. Poppy Chancellor's only child, the actress's only child, is suffering from acute myeloid leukaemia at the age of 36. I'm now leukaemia after three weeks of multiple infections in hospital,' Poppy says. 'I am still dealing with my heartbreak.' The white blood cells are cancerous. 'I am both anxious and physically exhausted at the same time as learning to speak to my body and cells with a loving defiance,' Poppy says.

When the British classic Great Expectations came to an end with a different ending, viewers were left raging. However, this is far from the first time that the BBC has changed an adaptation. The Night Manager (left), Killing Eve (centre), Malory Towers (right inset), and His Dark Materials were among the Oher sequences that were redesigned when they first appeared on television.

Hotel Portofino, a sumptuously glamorous ITV1 period drama, follows a wealthy Englishman's daughter's vow to make her luxurious seaside hotel on the Italian Riviera a success. Although some of Hotel Portofino's scenes were shot in the titularly pastel-colored Italian town of the title, the bulk of the series was shot on the Croatian coast. Lucy Akhurst and Claude Scott Mitchell (left), as well as Lily Frazer, are among the cast members (right).

JAMES RUNCIE: Marilyn Imrie, a former model from England, died of motor neurone disease at five o'clock in the morning on August 21, 2020. (left and right) She was a drama director, a singer, and an artist: mother to two children, wife, sister, aunt, and grandmother. She was 72 years old at the time. We were together for 35 years. This is my love letter to her - a tribute to a woman who was an effervescent force for good, who thought the best of people, embraced adventure and delighted in extravagantly greeting her friends: 'Hello, Gorgeousness!Tell me good things!' It's not just my way of recovering her from the last months of a terminal illness, but also an attempt to provide my own interpretation of Johnson's "moral aide" and encourage the possibility of hope in the face of sadness.