When Victoria Wood died from cancer on April 20, 2016, aged just 62, it came as a complete shock given few had even known she was ill.
And that was just the way the celebrated comedian had wanted it. Fiercely private, the Lancashire-born comedian had been unwell for around six months but kept her condition a secret from all but those closest to her.
According to friends, at first doctors couldn't work out what was wrong with the star, whose authorised biography, Let's Do It, was released on October 15. "Doctors didn’t know what the problem was.
It was very small and they couldn’t find it," a source told The Sun. "After her diagnosis her decline was very, very quick.” While the type of cancer Victoria had has never been disclosed, her good
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