Amy Dowden was moved to tears on Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer on Friday as she spoke about her ‘very tough’ struggle with breast cancer.

The Strictly Come Dancing star, 33, discussed hormone medication putting her body into menopause and her dread of not being able to have children with her new husband Ben Jones.

Amy, who was officially diagnosed with the disease in May, discovered a lump in her right breast in April, a day before she and her beau sailed off to the Maldives for a belated honeymoon after their wedding last July.

“I’ve had sepsis, blood clots, I’ve had to have hormone treatment then being put into menopause,” she told Davina McCall.

‘When I sat in that room and the doctor said “yes Amy you have cancer” that was one stab, and then what’s your “fertility plans?” Because I have an oestrogen fed cancer and they need to shut my ovaries down basically, and my husband is next to me and we’ve only been married a couple of months,’ she says.

“And it’s just heartbreaking and that is something I never knew, and the impact emotionally it’s just been so tough.”

Amy, on the other hand, had some good news: she was scheduled to have her final chemotherapy session next week.

“It has been the toughest year of my life but I am hoping with the surgery and chemo I have done enough,” she says.