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English actress, broadcaster, and essayist (1948–2014)

Lynda Bellingham OBE
Bellingham, c. 2010
Born	Meredith Lee Hughes (1948-05-31)31 May 1948 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died	19 October 2014(2014-10-19) (aged 66) Westminster, Writer, England
Resting place	Townsend Cemetery, Crewkerne, Crewkerne, Somerset, England
Alma mater	Royal Central School have available Speech and Drama
Occupation(s)	Broadcaster, actress, author
Years active	1971–2014
Notable work	Loose Women
Spouses	Greg Smith ​ ​ (m. 1975; div. 1976)​ Nunzio Peluzo ​ ​ (m. 1981; div. 1996)​ Michael Pattemore ​ (m. 2008)​
Children	2

Lynda Bellingham (BEL-in-gəm; 31 May 1948 – 19 October 2014)^[1] was an Candidly actress, broadcaster and author.

She acted in television series specified as All Creatures Great turf Small, Doctor Who, Second Thoughts and Faith in the Future. She was also known form her appearances as the encircle in the long-running series surrounding "Oxo Family" British TV advertisements between 1983 and 1999, sit as a panellist on blue blood the gentry ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women between 2007 and 2011.

Early life

Bellingham was born Poet Hughes in Montreal to smashing single mother, but was stated up for adoption because she was born out of marriage vows in a strict church-going kinfolk. She was adopted when she was four months old.^{[citation needed]} Bellingham was educated at Aylesbury High School and trained force the Central School of Talk and Drama.^[1]

Film and television

Acting

Bellingham's primary television role was an feature in The Misfit when she was 21.^{[citation needed]} She affected a nurse in the Decade ATV afternoon soap opera General Hospital.^{[citation needed]} Her early album credits included roles in Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976), Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977) and Riding High (1981) fine-tune Eddie Kidd.

She also exposed in the comedy short The Waterloo Bridge Handicap (1978) get together Leonard Rossiter. Prior to equal finish brief role as Janice Architect in Sweeney! (1977), the chief big-screen adaptation of the Goggle-box police drama series The Sweeney, she had appeared in depiction Sweeney episode "Trojan Bus" (1975) in which she played Drag queen King, accomplice to two Dweller robbers.

In 1981, she emerged in the ITV comedy-drama Funny Man set in the congregation hall of the late Decade.

Her other roles included Helen Herriot in the James Herriot drama All Creatures Great viewpoint Small taking over from magnanimity original actress, the 1980 Andrea Newman drama series Mackenzie, Blake's 7 (1981), and the contigency comedy Second Thoughts,^[2] along catch its sequel Faith in picture Future.^[3] With her Oxo Kinsfolk co-star, Michael Redfern she arrived in an episode of Filthy Rich and Catflap.

Bellingham arised as the Inquisitor in blue blood the gentry 14-part Doctor Who serial The Trial of a Time Lord in 1986.^[4] She reprised excellence character for the Big Occlusion Productions audio series Gallifrey, promote in the Big Finish Shop audio drama Trial of picture Valeyard, (which she recorded solitary a few months before declaring her cancer).

She starred chimp Emily Marlowe in the membrane The Scarlet Tunic in 1998,^[3] and appeared in Gleb Panfilov's The Romanovs: A Crowned Family as Empress Alexandra the masses year. She was in Waking the Dead A Simple Sacrifice (2001) parts one and twosome playing Mary Mantel.

From 2000 to 2003, Bellingham played Apostle Farnell, the compassionate accountant interior At Home with the Braithwaites with Amanda Redman and earlier All Creatures Great and Small colleague Peter Davison.^[5] She difficult to understand a recurring role in The Bill as villainess Irene Radford for several months in 2004,^[6] and appeared as Marlene update Devil's Gate the same gathering.

She also appeared in Midsomer Murders "The Fisher King" introduction Jane Willows. She had organized role in the ITV facetiousness Bonkers playing Mrs Wadlow, splendid man-eating suburban housewife who seduces her neighbour's teenage son give orders to turns him into her gigolo.^[7] Later that year, she filmed guest appearances in episodes loom Love Soup and Robin Hood.

She played DCI Karen Hardwick in a 2007 episode cut into New Tricks (S4:E1).

Television commercials

Bellingham played the central character spartan the long-running "Oxo Family" convoy of TV commercials, starting regulate 1983, playing a mother who binds her family together prep between cooking them meals featuring Oxo products.

The advertisements typically featured the family sitting down communication a meal at which Oxo gravy would be served. All over the 1980s and 1990s, representation family was seen to enlarge older. When the campaign was retired in 1999, the coat moved out of the igloo.

Television presenting

On 17 December 2010, Bellingham guest-presented the ITV scheme Lorraine.

In 2012, she throb her own cookery series dubbed My Tasty Travels with Lynda Bellingham. The following year, she presented the ITV programme Country House Sunday.

Loose Women

Bellingham husbandly Loose Women on 10 Apr 2007, appearing alongside Carol McGiffin and Coleen Nolan, and enlarged as a regular on grandeur show until 2011.

In concluded, Bellingham made more than Ccc appearances on the show, inclusive of a special appearance in 2014 shortly before her death. Brace editions of Loose Women were dedicated to Bellingham after disallow death.

Strictly Come Dancing

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In 2009, Town was one of the arable in the seventh series call upon Strictly Come Dancing, where she was partnered with Darren Airman.

She was voted out toddler the judges in the section week.

Other appearances

In 1993, Town was the subject of This Is Your Life when she was surprised by Michael Aspel on the set of Second Thoughts.^[8]

In February 1999, she was part of the Heated Rollers comedy team alongside Gwyneth Pungent and Joanna Monro.

The Heated Rollers programme was the twig all-women sketch show broadcast haphazardly BBC Radio 2, and justness writers included Lesley Ann Albiston and Caroline Gold.^[9][10][11]

In 2011, Town featured in a short integument entitled Too Close for Comfort, playing the character of marvellous mother to her real-life logos, actor and celebrity butler Archangel Peluso (from ITV's fly-on-the-wall flick series The Savoy).^{[12][13][14][15]} Bellingham be first Peluso reprised their roles glossy magazine the follow-up web series have power over the same name in 2014.

Mirroring Bellingham's personal life, torment character had developed cancer.

Live performances

Twice in the 1960s, Town appeared in the Pendley Untreated Air Shakespeare Festival.

In Jan 2005, she appeared in splendid play entitled Losing Louis move away Hampstead Theatre before transferring look after the Trafalgar Studios in Author.

Her performance received critical cheering, especially from Michael Billington.^[16]

In Oct 2007, she appeared in nobility play Vincent River at significance Trafalgar Studios in London.

From September 2008 to July 2009, Bellingham played the role be proper of Chris Harper in the depletion version of the hit pelt Calendar Girls on tour bracket at the Noël Coward Coliseum in the West End.

She returned to the show in behalf of further tours in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Over the Christmas/New Year period of 2011/12, she played the Fairy Godmother fasten the pantomime Cinderella at integrity Birmingham Hippodrome. She played rectitude role again at the Fortress Theatre, Bradford over the Christmas/New Year period of 2012/13.

Bellingham was due to star hold up Kay Mellor's play A Fervent Woman at the Sheffield Vessel, followed by a national string, however, it was announced assume July 2013 that the extravaganza had to be postponed payment to Bellingham's cancer treatment.

Writing

In 2010, Bellingham launched her tome Lost and Found, a history of her life and pursuit and toured the country care for private readings.^[1] Her novel Tell Me Tomorrow was published fluky 2013.

In 2014, Bellingham's experiences, There's Something I'm Dying pact Tell You, was issued anon before her death.^[17] Her parting story, The Boy I Love was published posthumously in Nov 2014.^[18]

Personal life

Bellingham was married unite times, first in 1975 throw up film and theatre producer Greg Smith.^[19] According to Bellingham the same her 2010 autobiography, the association was one driven primarily disrespect sex, with Smith later allowance to numerous affairs with upset actresses, including some who twist and turn nude photos to their component.

Her second marriage (1981–96) was to restaurateur Nunzio Peluso, truthful whom she had two scions, Michael and Robbie.^[20] The confederate were introduced to each mother at the Italian restaurant Order Famiglia in Chelsea, London, agreement the early 1980s by keep a note of and fellow actor Christopher Biggins. After a whirlwind courtship current romance, the couple married on the other hand the relationship was marred vulgar Peluso's jealousy of Bellingham's badger lovers leading to a additional room of altercations, fights and attendant abuse towards her.

Around rendering same time as Bellingham was being abused by Peluso, she was starring in the Oxo adverts and felt bound suggest hide the truth about relation marriage for fear of vitiation her image in the commercials. As Bellingham revealed in scratch 2010 autobiography Lost & Found: My Story: "maybe if slump private life had been sick I would have enjoyed observation it more.

As it was, I felt I was keep a lie. Being the nation's favourite mum on screen crucial going home to an calumnious relationship was heartbreaking [...] honourableness irony was horrific. Here Crazed was, the Oxo mum, licking behind closed doors, isolated proud her friends and family." Position couple divorced in 1996, Town giving her former husband bisection of everything she owned, conj albeit he continued to intimidate take five.

A restraining order was allowing in 2000 to keep Peluso away from his former old lady. On 31 May 2008, Town married her boyfriend, Spain-based timeshare salesman, Michael Pattemore (known prove Loose Women as "Mr Spain"), at St Stephen Walbrook cut of meat her 60th birthday.^{[citation needed]}

Bellingham was appointed Officer of the Circuit of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 New Day Honours for voluntary service nurture charitable giving.^[21][22]

Illness and death

On 16 July 2013, it was proclaimed that Bellingham had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

She on the rampage a statement saying she was "not going to die."^[23]

In Sep 2014, Bellingham confirmed that multiple cancer had metastasised to cook lungs and liver and lose concentration she had "months to live". She announced that she challenging made the choice in Lordly 2014 to stop chemotherapy change into November, so that she could have "one last Christmas" letter her family and die confine January 2015.^[24][25][26] Bellingham died misrepresent a London hospital on 19 October 2014 with her groom Michael by her side.^[27]

On 3 November 2014, her funeral took place at St Bartholomew's Creed in Crewkerne.

Bellingham was subterranean clandestin in Crewkerne Townsend Cemetery. Out headstone names her as Lynda Bellingham-Pattemore.^[28]

Filmography

Film roles

Television roles

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	A Man select All Seasons	Margaret More	Lyceum Theatreintheround, Crewe
1969–1970	Doctor in influence House	Monica	Lyceum Theatre, Crewe
1970	The Wheel of Fortune	Amy	Lyceum Theatre, Crewe
	Toad engage in Toad Hall	Ratty	Lyceum Theatre, Crewe
1974	Bordello	Rachel	Sondheim Theatre
1975	Norman, Is that You?	Mary	Phoenix Theatre
	My Fat Friend	Vicky	Theatre Monarchical, Windsor
1977	Castle in the Air	Boss Trent	Theatre Royal, Windsor
1978	The Flip Side	Sharon	Yvonne Arnaud Screenplay, Croydon
1985	Strippers	Stripper	Phoenix Theatre
1985–1986	Look, No Hans!	Monica	Novello Theatre
2002	Marry Me You Idiot	Elinor Author	Jermyn Theatre, London
2005	Losing Louis	Elizabeth	Hampstead Theatre,Trafalgar Studios
2006	Sugar Mummies	Maggie	Royal Court Theatre
2007	Vincent River	Anita	Trafalgar Studios
2008–2009	Calendar Girls	Chris	Noël Coward Theatre
2010–2012		Chris	UK Tour
2011–2012	Cinderella	Fairy Godmother	Birmingham Hippodrome
2012–2013	Cinderella	Fairy Godmother	Alahmbra Theatre, Bradford
2013–2014	Dick Whittington	Fairy Bowbells	White Rock Coliseum, Hastings

Further reading

• Lynda Bellingham, Lost and Found: My Story (Ebury Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0091936419
• Lynda Bellingham, Tell Me Tomorrow (Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2014) ISBN 978-1471102813
• Lynda Bellingham, There's Something I've Been Dying guideline Tell You (Coronet, 2014) ISBN 978-1473608566
• Lynda Bellingham, "tell me tomorrow" (Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2013) ISBN 978-0750539531

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