Taskmaster star Fatiha El-Ghorri opens up about cancer treatment

Comedian and Taskmaster star Fatiha El-Ghorri has shared that she was diagnosed pinch endometrial cancer past year.

In a lengthy matter station shared to Instagram connected Monday (16 February), El-Ghorri, 44, revealed that she had undergone a hysterectomy to region nan cancer. The connection prompted an outpouring of support from fans and chap comedians, including Katherine Ryan and Sarah Millican.

El-Ghorri, who appeared connected nan 19th bid of Taskmaster successful 2025, wrote that she’d been waiting to spell connected shape successful February 2025 erstwhile she was told that a transvaginal scan had revealed an abnormality connected her womb.

Following much tests, doctors told El-Ghorri that she apt had crab and should acquisition a precautionary hysterectomy. She had nan room to region her womb, on pinch her ovaries, successful May 2025, putting her into forced aliases aesculapian menopause.

In June 2025, doctors confirmed that she had Stage 1 endometrial cancer, but would not request to person chemotherapy aliases further curen arsenic nan crab had not dispersed and been removed pinch her womb.

However, she wrote that “the toughest and astir achy portion of each of this [has been] nan menopause”, and that she was “going retired of my mind” while waiting to get an assignment astatine nan NHS menopause clinic. In nan end, she ended up getting it covered privately.

“I was crying each day. I was depressed and sad. I felt lost. I felt stuck successful my mind and body. There was nary thief for me,” she wrote, explaining that her crab meant she wasn’t capable to person HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy).

El-Ghorri said that she was now “doing overmuch better” and “healing physically and hormonally”. She chose to stock her communicative now, she explained, because “menopause ain’t a joke”.

“It changes your life forever, physically, mentally and hormonally,” she said. “Looking backmost astatine it now, being moving people I person this mantra of can’t extremity won’t stop, must support working, must support striving because I don’t person a back-up plan, a information net… I deliberation this is why I was ashamed because I had to go anemic and had to trust connected others for thief which is thing I ne'er do.”

Her station was flooded pinch comments from different comedians offering their emotion and support to El-Ghorri.

“LOVE YOU SO MUCH and omg a monolithic circuit coming up pinch each of this going connected truthful recently. This will thief truthful galore & I respect you much than ever (which was a batch to statesman with),” wrote Katherine Ryan.

Ghosts star Mathew Baynton, who appeared connected El-Ghorri’s bid of situation show Taskmaster, commented: “I’m truthful sorry you had to spell done this. I’m successful awe of your spot (I already was). Sharing this will thief loads of people. All nan emotion successful nan world to you.”

“So overmuch emotion and spot to you. Thank you for sharing this,” said Sarah Millican.