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Grange Hill’s Zammo actor Lee MacDonald shares cancer diagnosis as fans express their concern

Lee has since deleted the tweet

Grange Hill star Lee MacDonald – who played Zammo in the kids TV drama – shared his cancer diagnosis yesterday (Wednesday, June 26).

The 56-year-old – who has also had roles in EastEnders and Birds of a Feather – shared the news on Twitter.

Grange Hill star Lee MacDonald shares cancer diagnosis

Taking to Twitter last night, Grange Hill star Lee shared some important news with his 14.3k followers in a now deleted post.

“Went to the doctors today to check an unusual spot on my face! Doctor says it’s cancer!” he wrote.

“As we older please keep an eye on anything unusual and hopefully get it looked at early!!! Booked in to get it sorted over the next couple of days!” he then continued.

Plenty of Lee’s fans and followers took to the replies to send their well-wishes.

Lee MacDonald speaking in a pub
Lee has been diagnosed with skin cancer (Credit: GB News)

Fans show their support to Grange Hill star Lee MacDonald

Taking to the replies, one fan wrote: “Glad you got it checked out – here’s to a speedy resolution’ and ‘Thank you for highlighting this Lee. Good luck to you over the next couple of days!”

“Hope all goes well, Lee. It’s good you got it checked early!” another tweeted.

“Gosh Lee hope you get it sorted quickly good job you went to the doctor,” a third wrote.

“Hope you’ll be OK. Sending love,” another follower said.

“Best of luck Lee. I was diagnosed with Squamous Cell Carcinoma in January, I’ve had 3 operations and 6 weeks of radiotherapy. You’re in great hands with the NHS, they have been brilliant,” a fifth added.

Lee MacDonald smiling on GMB
The star struggled to get work after Grange Hill (Credit: ITV)

Lee on impact Grange Hill storyline had on his career

Lee is perhaps best known for his role as Zammo. He was centre of the show’s most famous storyline in which the cheeky chappie developed a Heroin addiction.

The storyline ended with a shock overdose scene.

In 2007, Lee revealed that the heroin storyline actually led to him struggling to get acting roles later on in his career.

“After [the new series] was out, my agent said ‘Nobody wants you anymore because it’s a drugs-related character. So nobody wants to use you,” he told Grange Hill Gold.

“I lost loads of work because adults didn’t want me at the club because it was drugs-related. But that’s the power of telly . . . More so in the 80s when there was only a couple of channels,” he then continued.

“Things were taken a lot more seriously than they are now. There’s so much stuff that kids watch now that is outrageous.”

Read more: Grange Hill star Stuart Organ – best known for playing Mr Robson – dies aged 72: ‘That fella helped shape my childhood’

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Robert Emlyn Slater
Senior Writer