BBC presenter Lauren Laverne reveals she has cancer

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Alongside a picture of her smiling, the presenter of BBC Radio 6 Music’s breakfast show and Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs wrote: “Right then, some personal news… I recently had a cancer diagnosis. xxx.” Ms Laverne took over the job of presenting Desert Island Discs, Radio 4’s flagship interview show, from Kirsty Young in 2018. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free open image in gallery Laverne has hosted Radio 4’s ‘Desert Island Discs’ since 2018 Ms Laverne has been married to DJ Graeme Fisher since 2005 after the pair met and started dating in the early 2000s while working on the same TV show. “She ran the only reggae club night in the NE and told me that being young in the Sixties felt like that line in ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ ‘to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free.’” open image in gallery Laverne and her late mother, Celia Speaking about her own experience of motherhood, Ms Laverne told Red magazine in 2019 how she is determined to make “the most of every milestone” with her sons Mack and Fergus.