‘EastEnders’ Star Has Cancer

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The former EastEnders actress Wendy Richard, 65, has revealed she is dying of cancer. She said that she had written her will and planned her funeral after being diagnosed in January with an aggressive form of the disease that has attacked her kidney and spread to her bones. The star, who played Pauline Fowler in the BBC1 soap opera, has twice been diagnosed with breast cancer.

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