Jade Goody has eight-hour cancer op

7:03pm Sunday 14th September 2008

Reality TV star Jade Goody has undergone an eight-hour radical hysterectomy operation.

The mother-of-two will begin a nine-week course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy over the coming months.

She is expected to remain in intensive care at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Tests performed on Goody, one of Big Brother's most famous contestants, revealed her cancer had not spread. But the 27-year-old was advised to have chemotherapy and radiotherapy as well as a full hysterectomy at the London hospital.

Goody entered the Royal Marsden, a cancer specialist centre, on Thursday.

Her children, Freddie, three, and Bobby, five, are staying with their father, Goody's ex Jeff Brazier.

Goody's on-off boyfriend, Jack Tweed, was recently jailed for 18 months after being convicted of assaulting a 16-year-old boy with a golf club.

Goody was on the Indian version of Big Brother, called Bigg Boss, when she discovered she had cervical cancer. The Bermondsey-born star jetted home after show producers called her to the diary room to break the devastating news.

Goody joined the show while awaiting the results of tests performed at Harley Street, but said she could not walk away from her TV commitment because she had to keep her sons financially secure.

It was the Big Brother star's third cancer scare and followed four mystery collapses.