EastEnders star Heather Peace reveals her wife has also been diagnosed with breast cancer

Eastenders‘ Heather Peace has shared that her wife has also been diagnosed with breast cancer, weeks after publicly revealing her own diagnosis.

Heather Peace, who is known for playing Eve Sopal-Unwin in the BBC soap, shared in May that she’d been diagnosed in October.

Now the 50-year-old has shared that her wife, Ellie Dickinson, has had the same diagnosis. Speaking to The Mirror, Peace said that Dickinson got the news earlier this year.

 “Her breast cancer was a smaller, aggressive lump, so she had a lumpectomy and then radiotherapy,” the actress said.

Peace then joked about the differences between them. “Of course then I come along with my 12 cm lump, absolutely ginormous, and mastectomy, chemotherapy, just about to go into radiotherapy. She’s like ‘Even that you have to

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