Ricky Gervais' long-time partner Jane Fallon gives breast cancer update: 'Wish me luck'

Author Jane Fallon, who is also the long-time partner of Ricky Gervais, has given an update on her breast cancer battle, revealing she has undergone further surgery.

Fallon, 65, a TV producer turned author of 13 bestelling books, took to Instagram with a photo of her legs in surgical stockings to tell fans she was heading back into surgery and asked them to "wish me luck".

It came after she recently revealed to fans she would need more surgery after the first round failed to gain "clear margins" in her cancer battle.

"Just a little update. All is good. Yesterday I had my follow-up and they have basically got it all," she wrote.

"What they haven't got is a clear margin around the edge of what they have taken so I am going to have to have another op.

"It will be just to make sure they get everything, which is a bit of a pain, but it isn't a worry – they just need to make sure they have a clear margin, so will be the exact same operation as last time."

Fallon previously updated fans via Instagram on March 24 after she underwent her first round of surgery.

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"Little update. Big day. I had my op this morning. I'm feeling remarkably fine (which is possibly the drugs, and they might also explain why I'm cross eyed in photo five). It all went very well, apparently," she wrote.

"I celebrated with a cup of tea and the brilliant @catsteadman's new one (more on that later, but I'm loving it so far). I'm held together with superglue* and dissolving stitches.

"The popsox have to stay on for 48 hours, so I'm going to style them out as a new trend.

"Now I just have to wait 8-10 days for confirmation that they've got it all and the margins are clear (small % chance of more surgery)."

Fallon also gave "a huge thanks for all the lovely messages I've had since I posted about what was happening".

"I've honestly been blown away and I'm reading every single one of them even if I'm not not quite keeping up with replying #breastcancer. *Probably not superglue."

Fallon first took to Instagram on March 13 to announce what she called "a bit of news".

"I thought I should post something as I've had a few people notice I've been a bit quiet on here lately," she wrote.

"About a month ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer – very early stage thankfully and the prognosis is excellent.

"I had a routine mammogram a week before Christmas. I had no symptoms but the brilliant radiographer spotted something iffy and sent me for further tests and eventually a biopsy."

She wrote that she had "more mammograms, more biopsies and an MRI" to pinpoint the problem area precisely", adding "It's been a lot, I'm not going to lie".

Fallon ended the post by referencing "Dr Eric", presumably Gervais, and their cat, 'Nurse' Pickle.

Since then, she has had to contend with a fake obituary, which she addressed in a now-deleted post.

"I've taken the post about the obituary down, because I don't want people to think I'm upset by it. I'm not. Pissed off yes," she wrote on X.

"But more, I just want people to know that any photos you see of me in hospital, looking sad or with tubes sticking out of me are 100 per cent fake – AI generated."https://twitter.com/JaneFallon/status/2040347811007345118

Fallon and Gervais have been in a relationship since meeting at university in London in 1982.

They moved in together two years later and like his character in After Life, never had children, instead devoting themselves to their pets.

She is often by his side on the red carpet, including when he hosted the Golden Globes for the fifth time in 2020.

Fans were quick to pick up on the correlation of her diagnosis and the character of Lisa in the British black comedy After Life, the critically acclaimed Netflix series Gervasis created, wrote, executive produced, directed and starred in.

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Gervasis, 64, played small town newspaper journalist Tony Johnson whose beloved wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in the show, which premiered in 2019 and ran for three seasons.

Johnson's wife appears throughout the series in flashbacks, as she had passed away from the disease.

While promoting the series, Gervais said he had taken inspiration from his relationship with Jane.

Speaking to The Mirror, he said: "You don't get to 60 without seeing most things.

"I've lost both parents and a sibling, and all my pets and some friends.

"But the ultimate for me would be losing my soulmate. That's the worst thing that could happen to me."

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