Victoria Wood

Comic icon Victoria Wood will be honoured tonight on BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing with a performance by comedian Jayde Adams.

"She always knew what she wanted and liked to be in control. She wasn't diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer until 2018, and said it made her realise how scared her friend must have been knowing that unlike Julie, she couldn't have surgery to fix it. They couldn't operate on her cancer," she told Victoria Derbyshire's BBC2 show. And I had [cancer] at the same time.' She didn't want to do that." "They were sending her home to die in fact, but she wasn't going home to die. However daughter Grace, now 32, sensed the news had hit her mother very hard. She looked so different. He remembers: "It didn't feel that ominous. They added to The Sun: "It has shocked the family but she dealt with it in her own way. A friend said: "She was sat up in bed talking and joking at 11pm with her family around her but the next morning she died." Her son Henry, now 30, was living at home with her in Highgate, north London.