Deborah James smashes £5million charity target after move to end-of-life care

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Deborah James has reached her target of £5million to raise money for Cancer Research UK after announcing she's moved to end-of-life care.The 40 year old, who has been courageously battling bowel cancer for five years, wrote a heartbreaking “goodbye" post on Monday 9 May, revealing that her body “just wasn’t playing ball”.

Mum-of-two Deborah started a Just Giving page in a bid to raise an initial £250,000 for charity, but was blown away when she surpassed the number by millions in just days.

After reaching £4million on Friday 13 May, Deborah's close pal Lizzie Parry announced she hoped people would continue to donate and get the number up to a whopping £5million by the weekend.

Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter "So the fund for her will be so vital and the fact that it's nearly at £4million – she said to me last night she wants to his £5million by the weekend, which I think is entirely possible," Lizzie told Good Morning Britain hosts Kate Garraway, 55, and Ben Shephard, 47.