BEVERLEY Callard has given fans a health update after revealing her breast cancer diagnosis.

The Coronation Street icon, 68, revealed she had breast cancer just four days ago on Ireland‘s RTE Late Late Show on Friday.

But Beverley has now given fans a fresh update, with the soap star remaining “positive” and “strong”.

On Monday, Beverley was dressed in a casual tracksuit as she told fans she was back home in Norfolk after taking the ferry from Ireland with her husband Jon McEwan and their dogs.

Speaking to fans in a new social media post, Beverley said: “I really want to say thank you so much to everyone for your wonderful messages.

“Everybody has been truly fantastic.

“And I also want to say I’m feeling really positive and I’m very strong.

“I begin hospital stuff and everything now I’m home.”

She went on to reveal: “Everything begins this week.

“On Wednesday, they’re testing lymph nodes and lymph glands and all of that and I will keep everybody updated.

“I’m so appreciative of all the love that’s coming, thank you.”

Announcing her breast cancer diagnosis last Friday on The Late Late Show to host Patrick Kielty, the actress revealed she received the news just 20 minutes before filming her first scenes in her new Fair City soap opera role.

She explained: “I’d had some tests just before I left the UK and literally 15 to 20 minutes before [her first scene] I was in my dressing room at Fair City, getting ready to go on, and I was quite nervous and thinking, ‘I hope everybody thinks I’m all right, whatever’.

“And my consultant rang me and said, ‘you’ve got to come back to the UK‘.

“I said, ‘well I can’t possibly, you know, I’ve just taken a new job I’m away for a month’.”

Beverley added: “I’m fine. I’m absolutely fine.

“My head was a bit mashed for the first few days.

“It’s very early stages, and I’m along with, you know, thousands of other women as well.”

She started her new role as Gwen’s long-lost mother Lily in Fair City last month with plans to move over to Co Wicklow with her husband.

Speaking about being offered the part she told RTE: “I got asked to do it almost a year ago now, and I said, ‘Oh I don’t know if I can do another soap, I don’t know whether I should do that’.

“And they said, ‘well, just have a look at it’.

“In the UK it’s quite difficult to get and so I was watching it on my computer, and I just became addicted to Fair City and I just thought, this is fantastic.

“The editing is so good. The scripts are amazing. Got my husband to have a look at it. And I said, ‘I can’t say no to this’.”

Beverley was recently forced to hit back over accusations she had been using fat jabs after showing off her toned figure online.

She insisted: “Listen I have worked out my whole life and I have been working my ass off, literally.”