Charlotte Crosby’s mother Letitia, 56, is diagnosed with skin cancer for a second time – and professes ‘she is gutted and always wears Factor 50’

Charlotte Crosby‘s mother Letitia, 56, has announced she has been diagnosed with skin cancer for a second time. 

Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, the Geordie Shore star’s heartbroken mother told her 130k followers she was told she had cancer on her face just hours before jetting on holiday, from where she announced her news. 

She said: ‘I had a bit of a shock, I went to the hospital about three hours before I was due to board a plane and found out I have skin cancer on my face…

‘It it not great and certainly not what I wanted to hear either as I do actually wear factor 50. Obviously, I am gutted.’

Letitiia shared an up-close image of the side of her face with the caption over the top reading: ‘This is basically on a little post of aoen news I wasn’t expecting before I 3 hours before I boarded a flight [sic]’. 

Charlotte Crosby’s mother Letitia, 56, has announced she has been diagnosed with skin cancer for a second time

Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, the Geordie Shore star’s heartbroken mother told her 130k followers she was told she had cancer on her face just hours before jetting on holiday, from where she announced her news

Letitia added a caption on the video reading: ‘So previous pic is a low grade skin cancer found out 4 hrs before I boarded a flight and to say rocked shocked me. I dont use sunbeds I wear 50’

Letitia added a caption on the video reading: ‘So previous pic is a low grade skin cancer found out 4 hrs before I boarded a flight and to say rocked shocked me. I dont use sunbeds I wear 50…

‘On face 30factor on body and I not been anywhere lately apart from OZ which I feel is where this has started from! Result maybe remove and skin graft as it quite a large area #gutted #sunscrean #protect I am gutted I really am !’

Many of Charlotte’s friends and Geordie Shore co-stars commented on the video, including Sophie Kasaei and Holly Hagan.  

In February 2023, Charlotte was supported by her fans after she shared her reaction to finding out her mum Letitia had first been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Charlottte was pregnant with her first child, Alba Jean, when she found out the shock news about her mother in late 2022.

Speaking to her friend while filming her BBC reality show, Charlotte In Sunderland, she said in-between tears: ‘She’s got breast cancer Lauren, she’s a mess.’

She later said in a piece-to-camera: ‘It’s hit us like a ton of bricks. She only went for a routine mammogram. There were no signs and no symptoms so the diagnosis has been a massive shock.’

Charlotte announced her mother had been diagnosed with the disease, just weeks before she welcomed Alba Jean with her boyfriend Jake Ankers.

Letitiia shared an up-close image of the side of her face with the caption over the top reading: ‘This is basically on a little post of aoen news I wasn’t expecting before I 3 hours before I boarded a flight [sic]’

Charlotte announced her mother had been diagnosed with the disease, just weeks before she welcomed Alba Jean with her boyfriend Jake Ankers

The TV personality confessed she was devastated to learn her mum, 53, had cancer just weeks after discovering she was pregnant with her first child.

Charlotte, who was eight months pregnant, revealed Letitia had no symptoms or lumps and admitted she refused to believe her mother’s diagnosis at first. Just days after the diagnosis the TV star found her own lump, but was given the all-clear.

Letitia explained: ‘It was just a routine mammogram, I have never missed one. When they told me it was cancer I was floored.’

‘It was so difficult to tell Charlotte I had cancer. We had all the happy news a couple of months before that she was having the baby.

Charlotte and her family have been a support system for Letitia, who had to undergo four biopsies before surgery to remove her tumour and reconstruct her breast.

Charlotte and her family have been a support system for Letitia, who had to undergo four biopsies before surgery to remove her tumour and reconstruct her breast

Just days after Charlotte learned the news about her mum, she found a lump in her own breast.

She said: ‘I became so much more aware of my own body. And then I found a lump literally just after mum was diagnosed. I went to get it checked out straight away. Luckily it was nothing bad.’

Charlotte explained how she tried to reassure her mother that everything would be fine because she was ‘adamant’ that it wouldn’t be cancer.

The former Geordie Shore star said: ‘When she called and told us it was cancer, I said “No it’s not”. She was like, “No I have been told it is cancer”. But I still didn’t believe it because I was so adamant it could not be that.’

Letitia has now had surgery to remove a tumour and went on to undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy to rid her body of any remaining cancerous cells.