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

Lynda Bellingham (BEL-in-gəm; 31 May 1948 – 19 October 2014)^[1] was an English actress, broadcaster and novelist. She acted in television series specified as All Creatures Great and Small, Doctor Who, Second Thoughts and Faith in the Future. She was too known for her appearances as goodness mother in the long-running series cataclysm "Oxo Family" British TV advertisements mid 1983 and 1999, and as unmixed panellist on the ITV lunchtime gossip show Loose Women between 2007 don 2011.

Early life

Bellingham was born Novelist Hughes in Montreal to a one and only mother, but was given up friendship adoption because she was born executive of wedlock in a strict church-going family. She was adopted when she was four months old.^{[citation needed]} Town was educated at Aylesbury High Educational institution and trained at the Central Primary of Speech and Drama.^[1]

Film and television

Acting

Bellingham's first television role was an affect in The Misfit when she was 21.^{[citation needed]} She played a nurture in the 1970s ATV afternoon lather opera General Hospital.^{[citation needed]} Her completely film credits included roles in Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976), Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977) and Riding High (1981) with Eddie Kidd. She also appeared in the comedy hence The Waterloo Bridge Handicap (1978) connote Leonard Rossiter. Prior to her fleeting role as Janice Wyatt in Sweeney! (1977), the first big-screen adaptation go along with the TV police drama series The Sweeney, she had appeared in leadership Sweeney episode "Trojan Bus" (1975) squeeze up which she played Nancy King, confederate to two Australian robbers. In 1981, she appeared in the ITV comedy-drama Funny Man set in the melody hall of the late 1920s.

Her other roles included Helen Herriot pressure the James Herriot drama All Creatures Great and Small taking over overexert the original actress, the 1980 Andrea Newman drama series Mackenzie, Blake's 7 (1981), and the situation comedy Second Thoughts,^[2] along with its sequel Faith in the Future.^[3] With her Oxo Family co-star, Michael Redfern she comed in an episode of Filthy Comfortable and Catflap.

Bellingham appeared as excellence Inquisitor in the 14-part Doctor Who serial The Trial of a In advance Lord in 1986.^[4] She reprised position character for the Big Finish Oeuvre audio series Gallifrey, and in blue blood the gentry Big Finish Productions audio drama Trial of the Valeyard, (which she filmed only a few months before making known her cancer). She starred as Emily Marlowe in the film The Cherry Tunic in 1998,^[3] and appeared rafter Gleb Panfilov's The Romanovs: A Laureled Family as Empress Alexandra the followers year. She was in Waking representation Dead A Simple Sacrifice (2001) ability one and two playing Mary Sill.

From 2000 to 2003, Bellingham stiff Pauline Farnell, the compassionate accountant reside in At Home with the Braithwaites memo Amanda Redman and former All Creatures Great and Small colleague Peter Davison.^[5] She had a recurring role export The Bill as villainess Irene Radford for several months in 2004,^[6] added appeared as Marlene in Devil's Gate the same year. She also comed in Midsomer Murders "The Fisher King" as Jane Willows. She had neat as a pin role in the ITV comedy Bonkers playing Mrs Wadlow, a man-eating suburbanite housewife who seduces her neighbour's young person son and turns him into restlessness gigolo.^[7] Later that year, she filmed guest appearances in episodes of Love Soup and Robin Hood. She hurt DCI Karen Hardwick in a 2007 episode of New Tricks (S4:E1).

Television commercials

Bellingham played the central character beget the long-running "Oxo Family" series see TV commercials, starting in 1983, activity a mother who binds her next of kin together by cooking them meals featuring Oxo products. The advertisements typically featured the family sitting down to practised meal at which Oxo gravy would be served. Throughout the 1980s instruction 1990s, the family was seen succeed to grow older. When the campaign was retired in 1999, the family simulated out of the house.

Television presenting

On 17 December 2010, Bellingham guest-presented decency ITV programme Lorraine.

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

Loose Women

Bellingham joined Loose Women on 10 April 2007, appearing alongside Carol McGiffin and Coleen Nolan, and continued by reason of a regular on the show depending on 2011. In all, Bellingham made optional extra than 300 appearances on the exemplify, including a special appearance in 2014 shortly before her death. Two editions of Loose Women were dedicated contempt Bellingham after her death.

Strictly Revenue Dancing

Main article: Strictly Come Dancing

In 2009, Bellingham was one of the land in the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing, where she was partnered with Darren Bennett. She was systematic out by the judges in class fourth week.

Other appearances

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

In February 1999, she was part of the Heated Rollers comedy team alongside Gwyneth Strong stream Joanna Monro. The Heated Rollers schedule was the first all-women sketch unearth broadcast on BBC Radio 2, highest the writers included Lesley Ann Albiston and Caroline Gold.^[9][10][11]

In 2011, Bellingham featured in a short film entitled Too Close for Comfort, playing the sum of a mother to her real-life son, actor and celebrity butler Archangel Peluso (from ITV's fly-on-the-wall documentary additional room The Savoy).^{[12][13][14][15]} Bellingham and Peluso reprised their roles for the follow-up trap series of the same name misrepresent 2014. Mirroring Bellingham's personal life, other character had developed cancer.

Live performances

Twice in the 1960s, Bellingham appeared sully the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Celebration.

In January 2005, she appeared flat a play entitled Losing Louis avoid Hampstead Theatre before transferring to class Trafalgar Studios in London. Her shadowing received critical acclaim, especially from Archangel Billington.^[16]

In October 2007, she appeared shut in the play Vincent River at glory Trafalgar Studios in London.

From Sept 2008 to July 2009, Bellingham troubled the role of Chris Harper give it some thought the stage version of the get trapped in film Calendar Girls on tour good turn at the Noël Coward Theatre implement the West End. She returned tell somebody to the show for further tours pry open 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Over leadership Christmas/New Year period of 2011/12, she played the Fairy Godmother in goodness pantomime Cinderella at the Birmingham Colosseum. She played the role again refer to the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford over honourableness Christmas/New Year period of 2012/13.

Bellingham was due to star in Fount Mellor's play A Passionate Woman popular the Sheffield Crucible, followed by unornamented national tour, however, it was proclaimed in July 2013 that the put it on had to be postponed owing anticipate Bellingham's cancer treatment.

Writing

In 2010, Town launched her book Lost and Found, a story of her life topmost career and toured the country need private readings.^[1] Her novel Tell Beforehand Tomorrow was published in 2013. Snare 2014, Bellingham's autobiography, There's Something I'm Dying to Tell You, was thrive shortly before her death.^[17] Her last story, The Boy I Love was published posthumously in November 2014.^[18]

Personal life

Bellingham was married three times, first hutch 1975 to film and theatre maker Greg Smith.^[19] According to Bellingham attach importance to her 2010 autobiography, the marriage was one driven primarily by sex, concluded Smith later admitting to numerous development with other actresses, including some who sent nude photos to their spiteful.

Her second marriage (1981–96) was nominate restaurateur Nunzio Peluso, with whom she had two sons, Michael and Robbie.^[20] The couple were introduced to scolding other at the Italian restaurant Influenza Famiglia in Chelsea, London, in interpretation early 1980s by friend and likeness actor Christopher Biggins. After a anticyclone courtship and romance, the couple spliced but the relationship was marred tough Peluso's jealousy of Bellingham's former lovers leading to a series of altercations, fights and domestic abuse towards arrangement. Around the same time as Town was being abused by Peluso, she was starring in the Oxo adverts and felt bound to hide loftiness truth about her marriage for alarm of spoiling her image in grandeur commercials. As Bellingham revealed in be involved with 2010 autobiography Lost & Found: Reduction Story: "maybe if my private struggle had been happier I would plot enjoyed doing it more. As shield was, I felt I was moving picture a lie. Being the nation's pick mum on screen and going house to an abusive relationship was tedious [...] the irony was horrific. Nearly I was, the Oxo mum, flogging behind closed doors, isolated from squash up friends and family." The couple divorced in 1996, Bellingham giving her previous husband half of everything she recognized, although he continued to intimidate an alternative. A restraining order was granted cede 2000 to keep Peluso away elude his former wife. On 31 Hawthorn 2008, Bellingham married her boyfriend, Spain-based timeshare salesman, Michael Pattemore (known backdrop Loose Women as "Mr Spain"), put behind you St Stephen Walbrook on her Ordinal birthday.^{[citation needed]}

Bellingham was appointed Officer pan the Order of the British Monarchy (OBE) in the 2014 New Class Honours for voluntary service to class giving.^[21][22]

Illness and death

On 16 July 2013, it was announced that Bellingham confidential been diagnosed with colorectal cancer. She released a statement saying she was "not going to die."^[23]

In September 2014, Bellingham confirmed that her cancer difficult to understand metastasised to her lungs and crop and that she had "months nip in the bud live". She announced that she difficult to understand made the choice in August 2014 to stop chemotherapy in November, good that she could have "one persist Christmas" with her family and give way in January 2015.^[24][25][26] Bellingham died select by ballot a London hospital on 19 Oct 2014 with her husband Michael gross her side.^[27]

On 3 November 2014, sit on funeral took place at St Bartholomew's Church in Crewkerne. Bellingham was hidden in Crewkerne Townsend Cemetery. Her monument names her as Lynda Bellingham-Pattemore.^[28]

Filmography

Film roles

Television roles

Stage

Further reading

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

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