“I'm lucky that it's benign so it's not in itself a worrying thing,” she said. “Sometimes it's big and makes me mad, and sometimes it's small and is in the background.

“Sometimes it screws up my hormones. I have various tests now to make sure the side effects aren't too onerous.”

Following the diagnosis, her comedy partner Mel Giedroyc went on to have two children.

“When she had her first child I thought: this is an experience I won’t have or share,” Perkins admitted. “You’ve gone somewhere I can’t go. You think it is going to destroy something, but actually it hasn’t destroyed anything - we have very different lives and different experiences now.”

Perkins, who is dating TV presenter Anna Richardson, tweeted a message of thanks to her fans for their concern:

Bake Off star Sue Perkins tells of living with a brain tumour for 8 years