Victoria wears coat, Iris & Ink attheoutnet.com. Jumper, Jigsaw. Earrings, Alighieri The sun is shining and Victoria Derbyshire is thrilled to be alive. ‘There’s a gratitude; everything’s in colour,’ says the journalist and news anchor who has come through radiotherapy, chemotherapy and a mastectomy to beat breast cancer. ‘I want to say yes to everything. I just want to have the best time with my family and friends. I want to feel like I’m living every second, because we don’t know how long we’ve got.’ Victoria, 52, looks terrific today. There’s a natural authority about this woman who has presented hours and hours of live TV and radio and reported from Guantanamo Bay and the Grenfell Tower fire, even when she’s being chatty and personal. But the gratitude comes from having faced a moment in her life when she really did think it was all over. ‘You go through all the early tests with no idea if it’s treatable or not. That’s when I thought, “OK. So I’m not going to get to see my boys grow up.”’