Lynda Bellingham (born 31 May 1948) is an English television presenter and actress.
Bellingham is possibly best known for presenting Loose Women. She is also known for her starring roles in Second Thoughts as Faith Grayshot and in All Creatures Great and Small as Helen Herriot.
She was born in Montreal due to her father working for the airline BOAC, and was brought up in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England and was educated at Aylesbury High School. She got her big break as a nurse in an ITV afternoon soap opera of the 1970s, General Hospital. She also went topless for her role in Confessions of a Driving Instructor.
Her most famous role was in the 1980s as the head of the family in the Oxo television adverts. Other prominent roles included the James Herriot drama All Creatures Great and Small (where she was the second actress to play Helen Herriot on television, replacing Carol Drinkwater) and the situation comedy Second Thoughts and its sequel, Faith in the Future.
She starred in the 14-part Doctor Who serial The Trial of a Time Lord (1986) as the Inquisitor. Bellingham reprised the Inquisitor character for the Big Finish Productions audio series, Gallifrey. In 1998 she appeared in Gleb Panfilov's The Romanovs: A Crowned Family as Empress Alexandra.
From 2000 to 2004, Bellingham played Pauline Farnell, the compassionate accountant in At Home with the Braithwaites alongside Amanda Redman and former All Creatures Great and Small colleague Peter Davison.
For several months in 2004, she had a recurring role in The Bill as villainess Irene Radford.
In 2007, Lynda joined the panel of chat show Loose Women, played Mrs. Wadlow in comedy series Bonkers and filmed guest appearances in episodes of Love Soup and Robin Hood. Since the middle of the year, Lynda has been doing the voice-over on the Vodafone adverts with the slogan: Make the most of now.
In October 2007, she appeared in a play entitled Vincent River at the Trafalgar Studios in London. Her performance received critical acclaim and it was announced on Loose Women in early 2008 that the play would be moving to Broadway in July of that year.
Personal life
Bellingham has been married three times. Her first marriage was to producer Greg Smith. Her second marriage (1981 - 1996) was to Nunzio Peluso with whom she had two sons. On 14 August 2007, it was announced that Bellingham had accepted a marriage proposal from her partner, Spanish-based mortgage broker, Michael Pattemore. She married Pattemore (known on Loose Women as "Mr Spain") on 31st May 2008, her 60th birthday.
Bellingham states that she doesn't have many passions, apart from reading and horses. She originally had horse-riding aspirations, but they were dashed by the onset of hayfever in her teens.
Justice for Lynda - 20/02/03 Actress Lynda Bellingham’s former tenant has been locked up in a mental hospital indefinitely for attempting to firebomb her home.
She was asleep when George Miller, 38, hurled a firework tied to a rock and soaked in inflammable liquid through her lounge window, Blackfriars Crown Court was told.
The court heard the noise from the blast failed to wake her, but fortunately the crude device failed to ignite.
Her 19-year-old son, Michael Peluso, discovered the attack as he returned from work in the early hours.
The court heard a subsequent search of Miller’s home in Crouch End yielded a diary of harassment which showed the mental suffering that lay behind his allegations against Mr Peluso.
He was charged with attempted arson with intent to endanger Miss Bellingham’s life on March 22 last year, as well as a lesser allegation of being reckless as to whether her life was put in danger.
The attack followed a lengthy campaign of "delusional" complaints against Miss Bellingham’s 19-year-old son, Michael Peluso. Shortly after Christmas 2000 Miller and his girlfriend began renting a flat owned by the actress. There were a number of incidents and finally in March 2001, Bellingham gave him notice to leave.
A search of Miller’s Crouch End home in north London yielded a "diary of harassment" showing the mental suffering that lay behind a litany of unfounded allegations.
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Loose Women
Current panelists
Jackie Brambles · Andrea McLean · Coleen Nolan · Sherrie Hewson · Carol McGiffin · Jane McDonald · Lynda Bellingham
Denise Welch · Gillian Taylforth
Zoe Tyler · Jo Bunting · Sinitta
External links
Official Lynda Bellingham Website
Lynda Bellingham at the Internet Movie Database
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