Great British Bake Off star Sue Perkins reveals she's been living with a brain tumour for eight years

Great British Bake Off star Sue Perkins has revealed she has been living with a brain tumour for eight years which prevents her from having children.

In an interview with Good Housekeeping, the presenter said the growth, on her pituitary gland, was only found during tests she underwent as part of the BBC show Supersizers.

The 45-year-old told the magazine: "I was at a point where I was spending so much of my life doing TV that I only found out about my real life through a television procedure."

Speaking about the tumour, she said: “I’m lucky that it’s benign so it’s not in itself a worrying thing.

“Sometimes it’s big and makes me mad, and sometimes it’s small and is in the background.

“Sometimes it screws up my hormones. I have various tests now to make sure the side effects aren’t too onerous.”

She said she was devastated when told the tumour affects the ­secretion of reproductive hormones, which means she cannot have babies.

“We live in a time and place where we think everything is possible. I don’t know if I would have gone on to have children. But as soon as someone says you can’t have something, you want it more than anything,” she said.

She took to Twitter last night to thank fans for their support.