Schadenfreude is a good word and it's the one which came to mind watching this week's Channel 5 potboiler Coma (Channel 5, Mon-Thurs, 9pm).
Kate Keltie, who played Michelle Scully in Channel 5 soap Neighbours from 1999, revealed her stage four breast cancer diagnosis last November.
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