Goody recovering from eight-hour operation

Reality TV star Jade Goody underwent 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 was expected to remain in intensive care at the Royal Marsden Hospital last night after her operation.

Tests performed this week 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, yesterday.

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.

She is now said to be devastated that she will not be able to have the girl that she always wanted.

The star’s spokesman Max Clifford said: “The operation went well. She’s got the best people looking after her. She’s had surgery, a radical hysterectomy and the operation lasted eight hours.”

A hysterectomy, the surgical removal of the uterus or womb, normally lasts between one to two hours and is performed under general anaesthetic.