Julia Bradbury Faces £425k Debt After Cancer Fight

's staggering amount of debt has been revealed following her breast battle.

The Countryfile presenter's life as a working mother-of-three was turned upside down when, aged 51, doctors confirmed the discovery of a tumour on her left breast.

Since her diagnosis, Julia has fronted fewer shows, including her series, Julia Bradbury's Wonders of the Frozen South. 

While battling cancer she underwent a mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction, as well as an operation to remove a 6cm tumour and chemotherapy.

Since 2021, Julia has been in remission.

But while she's been busy keeping the disease at bay, the star has been hit with another blow as it can now be revealed that she is facing financial woes, The Sun reports.

Her company, Matron Productions, has entered liquidation, owing £425,671 - much of it fines for not paying taxes, according to the publication.

The Daily Mail has contacted her representatives for comment. 

Two years ago, Julia addressed how her cancer diagnosis plunged her into financial difficulties and compelled her to fundamentally reassess her lifestyle.

She told The Times: 'I am very, very fortunate, and overall I'm having a wonderful life. 

'But I've had a cancer diagnosis, both my parents have had cancer, I've lost people along the way, I've had financial worries, I've had to reinvent myself and I'm not 100 per cent happy all of the time - of course not.'

She continued: 'I realised you don't have to win every race, you don't have to overcome everything, I don't want to max out the credit card.'

In April, Julia said she has fine-tuned her lifestyle to ensure she stays alive 'for as long as possible'.

'I was terrified and sad, it was a very emotionally upsetting time,' she told The Times. 'It must have been very, very difficult for my family. 

'I was in the eye of the storm and changed overnight to become the person I needed to be to get through this.' 

While arduous chemotherapy treatment wasn't needed, Julia underwent a mastectomy to remove the affected breast, a move that prompted immediate changes to her diet - among them the decision to give up meat and sugar. 

'I thought, right, I need to get stronger for this,' she recalled. 'I knew after the operation I needed to move and walk as quickly as possible in order to heal. 

'Getting blood pumping around a wound area is very, very important and your heart health also comes under attack when you have anaesthetics. In the moment it was instinct, but from that proactive period I was on a different path and didn't come off it.' 

Meat has since found its way back into the presenter's diet, but she insists on healthier, organic options rather than cheaper cuts. 

'I used to live very much on convenience fast food because I was out and about filming all the time, eating at petrol stations, airports,' she said, recalling how her working diet consisted of cheap sandwiches and bags of sweets.  

'I was having sugar all day in crazy quantities but I'm naturally slim so I didn't have the warning sign some people have of putting on weight,' she added. 

As well as dietary changes, Julia has incorporated regular exercise, outdoor walks and an insistence on consistent sleep patterns into her daily routine in a bid to stay fit and be a constant in the lives of her children, son Zephyr, 14, and twin daughters Xanthe and Zena, 11.  

Julia, who claims she 'felt invincible' when she was younger, admits she would have adopted a more considered approach to her health and diet at an earlier point in her life had she known what she knows now. 

The presenter is now also an advocate for making PRS and testing available on the  and previously revealed she has taken her own polygenic risk score (PRS) test, which she branded a life-saver to empower women and help them predict breast cancer risks.

She told Instagram followers: 'When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, it changed my life. But it also made me ask more questions about why it happened—and what I could do to reduce the risk of it coming back.

'That's why I took a polygenic risk score (PRS) test under the guidance of Professor Gareth Evans at the Manchester Biomedical Research Centre. He has since retired. 

'It's a genetic test that looks at small variations (called SNPs) across your DNA to help assess your personal risk of developing breast cancer—or, in my case, a recurrence.'