TV favourite reunites with former co-star amid cancer battle: ‘We so appreciate you’

Ali Bastian has shared pictures from a reunion with erstwhile Hollyoaks co-star Sarah Jayne Dunn.

The actress, who is presently undergoing attraction for bosom cancer, welcomed Sarah and her mum Dotty to her location successful West Cork successful Ireland implicit the weekend. 

Ali, who portrayed Becca Dean connected the Channel 4 soap betwixt 2001 and 2007, said their sojourn had been an ‘absolute astonishing lift’. 

Sharing snaps of them enjoying a locomotion successful the countryside together, Ali wrote: ‘What an perfectly beauteous play with my dearest person @sarahjaynedunn and the unstoppable, incredible, kindest @dotty2510. 

‘Thank you truthful overmuch for the implicit astonishing assistance you person fixed me; helping america with the girls, waving your magic wands implicit our home. We truthful admit you.💖💖💖 

‘Thank you for coming to our small country of West Cork. Love you some truthful overmuch xxxxxxx cannot hold to drawback up again soon xxxx harmless travels home!!!’

Sarah is champion known for playing Hollyoaks’ Mandy Richardson – a relation she primitively held betwixt 1996 and 2008, earlier making a instrumentality from 2010 to 2011, and again from 2017 to 2021. 

Ali, 42, went nationalist with her bosom crab diagnosis past September, confirming that she discovered a lump portion breastfeeding her baby.

‘It was a full shock,’ Ali told OK! Magazine astatine the time. 

‘I person mornings erstwhile I aftermath up and I’ve forgotten… and past abruptly I remember. I’m inactive trying to process it.’

Before Christmas, Ali revealed that she had reached the halfway constituent successful her latest rhythm of treatment and frankincense marked the juncture by ringing a bell.

‘I got to ringing (the tiny small doorbell I stole from my kid’s euphony container arsenic they don’t bash the [bell] happening present successful Ireland) aft 5 months of chemotherapy,’ she wrote connected Instagram. 

‘I’m inactive halfway done this past cycle, truthful overmuch inactive to process connected each level. Chemo is major.

‘The oncology nursing squad astatine the Dunmanway CUH are INCREDIBLE, I said to them arsenic I left… it’s not that I ne'er privation to spot them again due to the fact that I emotion them each truthful much, I conscionable anticipation the adjacent clip I bash we each person a solid of Prosecco successful our hands raising wealth and consciousness for each their unthinkable work.

‘For anyone going done this, you deliberation the extremity volition ne'er travel and past done the fog… the extremity posts appear. You are not alone. Thank you each so, truthful much. I work each benignant connection of enactment and it honestly gets maine done xxxxxxx.’

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