Marcia Cross’s husband, stockbroker Tom Mahoney, has been diagnosed with cancer, PEOPLE exclusively confirms.

“He is currently under treatment and is responding very well,” the actress’s rep Heidi Slan says.

The two were married in June 2006, and have 23-month-old fraternal twin daughters, Eden and Savannah.

Cross has credited her husband’s love and support for her own happiness. “I think that beauty comes from being happy and connected to the people we love,” the actress told PEOPLE shortly after they were engaged. “And his love makes me feel beautiful.”

No further details of Mahoney’s condition were available.

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There may be a problem with a film when a narrator constantly tells you the meaning of what you have just seen, gift-wrapping each scene with a moral.

There may be a problem with characters who shop with such conviction while the audience looks up from the trough of a credit crunch.

There may be a problem with stretching Sex and the City into a two hour and twenty minute film - it can feel like a never ending dinner party: however pleasant the courses, after a while you can hardly eat another one.

None of these problems seemed apparent to the women who sat around me in the cinema in Leicester Square, laughing and weeping in quick succession. After a while I began to reason like one of the characters: maybe the problem was me.

Everyone else, being in possession of more than one X chromosome, seemed entirely satisfied by what they were served.

The dialogue was still sharp even if, to an audience now rather more used to women characters talking frankly about sex, it may no longer seem so daring.

There were still attempts to shock. Now they were talking about sex in front of a child, referring to the act euphemistically as “colouring”. How often did Miranda do colouring? Not nearly enough. Samantha, the goddess single of older women, of course liked to use all the crayons, while Carrie Bradshaw, our narrator and lead, said that when Big coloured “he doesn’t always stay inside the lines.”

Perhaps the child was needed to remind us that this was shocking, because since the series began, we have all become a lot more grown up.

If the atmosphere inside the cinema bordered on the devotional and the theatre was filled with the sounds of women emoting, outside the atmosphere was hysterical.

New Line, the studio behind the film, had attempted to pacify critics, curious as to why a film in which a major character is the city of New York, should open first in London.

The company claimed that the event would be “much smaller” than the New York premier, but all four women were there in their heels and dresses, and thousands had arrived to see them and scream their names.

Each in turn diplomatically affirmed their love of the city and denied or brushed aside rumours of tensions between the them during filming.

If none of the four actresses has enjoyed comparable success since the end of the series four years ago, the crowds cheered louder than they have for established film stars. Many felt they were welcoming back friends who had lived on their screens for six years and were returning for one last blast.

It was almost as if the director was feeling the nostalgia. The opening scenes are broken up with musical montages, softly lit like Hallmark adverts.

Carrie Bradshaw, (Sarah Jessica Parker), is finally to marry her Mr Big (Chris Noth). The news features in New York gossip columns, she is the forty-year-old bride featured in a wedding edition of Vogue.

The plot twists and turns like that of a pot boiler. Having inspired an entire genre of ‘chick lit’, Sex and the City the film feeds off its own progeny. Is it a film, one wonders, or an extended soap opera, will any of these crises be resolved and, if they are, will it matter, for they will surely soon plunge themselves into another dilemma, for which the only cure is an expansive shopping trip.

At the last, there is at least a brief concession to the meaner times in which we live now. And at the last, does Carrie finally marry her Mr Big? Well, dear reader, I can tell you that she…

A women’s institution

— Philip Treacy designed the hat worn for last night’s premiere by Sarah Jessica Parker. The eccentric British style icon Isabella Blow helped to make the Irish milliner a household name by stepping out in his outrageous designs for more than a decade

— Six seasons of the original television series of Sex and the City were produced on the HBO network between 1998 and 2004

— It won six Emmy awards and eight Golden Globes

— The final episode on Channel 4 in 2004 drew 4.1 million viewers

— The fifth series was cut to eight episodes after Parker and Cynthia Nixon became pregnant

— A black sequined Chanel dress with a price tag of $5,000 was among items of clothing from the series put up for sale in New York

— A channel in Shanghai produced its own version of the series in 2003 called Hot Ladies

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Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross says she thoroughly enjoys her role as mother to her twin daughters Eden and Savannah so much that she can’t bear to be apart from them.

“If I work a couple of long days… I have the girls come to the set. Though I can’t really be with them, I can at least change a diaper or play with them for a minute and then run back out… They’re so cute. They’re just… thriving. I’m madly in love with them!”

Marcia is pictured with Twins Eden (pink hat) and Savannah (in 2nd thumb) 22-months at the park yesterday in in Santa Monica.

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By Auditioning Contributor Carlie

How much would you pay to join the stars of Sex and the City on the red carpet at the premiere of the movie?

One woman from Japan won Oxfam’s auction to attend the New York event with Kristin Davis.

The winning bid? $52,100 – which goes entirely to the international relief and development organization.

The winner, who found out about the auction from an interview with Davis in last week’s Us Weekly, plans to go to the premiere with her fiance.

“Oxfam’s mission is to alleviate poverty and injustice by helping people learn skills and create lives,” Davis explained to Us. “I just got back from Africa and saw firsthand that we’re making a long-term difference. It gave me a sense of satisfaction.”

The prize includes a pair of Jimmy Choos for the occasion and an on-air meet and greet with Davis, who plays Charlotte York.

Earlier this month, a man from the U.K. placed a winning bid of $40,100 at an Oxfam auction to join Scarlett Johansson at the L.A. premiere of He’s Just Not That Into You.

Marcia Cross and her husband Tom Mahoney spent some time on Easter at their local park with 1-year old twins, Eden and Savannah. Love that customized red wagon — I bet the girls like riding in it too!

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Adorable pictures of Marcia Cross and the twins at the park in Santa Monica, CA. Marcia seems like such a hands on mom, she’s always out with the girls, making sure they get plenty of time outside. They also photograph so well, the pictures always seem professional to me. Savannah has the purple hat on, and Eden is in the light pink hat (last thumbnail).

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Eden and Savannah Mahoney were spotted having fun in the sandbox at their local park the other day. Mom, Marcia Cross makes sure the girls have no shortage of park time.

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One-year-old sisters Eden and Savannah take a walk in a park with their mama. Seems like Savannah, who’s always looked a bit more “babyish” than her sister to me, is actually doing better at taking first steps than her sister. Recent pictures tend to confirm that while baby S. can walk by herself, baby E. still needs some assistance.

The twins have always been of my favorite “celebrity babies”. They look so happy, healthy and Marcia seems to be a really god Mommy, enjoying each and every minute with her bundles of joy.