A TikTok influencer has been forced to apologise, after admitting that she had previously lied about being diagnosed with cancer.

Brittany Miller, who is originally from Oxfordshire, is known for posting food and lifestyle content to her three-and-a-half-million followers on the platform.

But the 29-year-old recently came under fire on the app, after material seeming to show a fundraising page claiming she had been diagnosed with gastric cancer went viral.

In a video posted on social media on Monday, Ms Miller admitted to lying about the diagnosis and said it came from "one stupid sentence that I deeply regret".

"I said something to someone within my immediate circle in confidence. I said I had an illness, which was cancer," she said in the emotional post.

"I didn't do this with malicious intent or to scam people, I did this out of desperation, I did it to keep the people in my life close to me."