LYNDA BELLINGHAM: ‘Oxo Mum’ only weeks to live
British television actress Lynda Bellingham, famed for playing the matriarch of a Sunday roast-loving family in the Oxo advertisements of the 1980s to the 1990s, has revealed that she is suffering from terminal cancer and has only a few weeks to live.
National tabloid the Daily Mirror reports that Ms. Bellingham will give up chemotherapy treatment and has ‘chosen the date I will die’ but hopes to spend one more Christmas with her real-life family. For the sake of privacy and to help her come to terms with her diagnosis, Bellingham had opted to keep her terminal cancer a secret for the past year. She had been told by medical professionals that she had bowel cancer, but reassured her fans that the cancer would not be fatal.
Recently however, the beloved ‘Oxo mum’, now aged 66, announced that the tumours had spread from her intestines to her liver and…
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Sarah, thanks for the reblog.
I admire Lynda and her work…and for me personally she’ll always be remembered as the great ‘Oxo Mum’.
Wishing her a happy and fullfilled remainder of her life.
Vijay
Pleasure to re-blog. Well, not really a pleasure as it’s very sad news. I’ve never worked with her although we’ve met over the years at mutual friends’ parties and, alas, funerals. I do hope she gets her Christmas. Thanks for commenting, Vijay, and for following R&V!