‘Delight’ as Lauren Laverne set to return to BBC work after cancer diagnosisBy Charlotte McLaughlin, PA Senior Entertainment ReporterBBC presenter Lauren Laverne is set to return to working at the corporation this month following a cancer diagnosis. Laverne, 46, will begin recording episodes of The One Show and BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in November after being absent from the studios for around three months. A new episode of Desert Island Discs will come out on December 1, and will be a pre-recorded interview with comedian Mark Steel that is believed to have been done by Laverne before she went on leave. She will return to record more episodes as well as Christmas editions of the series over the next few weeks, which are set to be next announced soon. Laverne announced on August 21, that she has a “cancer diagnosis”, and stressed that it was caught “early and unexpectedly during a screening test”.

Source: Irish Independent November 18, 2024 01:00 UTC