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My sons Michael and Robbie are doing well and my career goes from strength to strength. She was one of the most selfless and loving people you could ever meet."

A Journey to Discover Her Roots

Bellingham was adopted at four months old by her Canadian mother, Marjorie, who became pregnant out of wedlock.

She started appearing on the chat show Loose Women in 2007, and married salesman Michael Pattemore the following year. It won every award there was to win. She finally made contact with Marjorie when she was 35, after the birth of her youngest son, Robbie.

Having established her reality television credentials, she presented My Tasty Travels With Lynda Bellingham in 2012.

Bellingham released an autobiography in 2010 entitled Lost And Found: My Story. Michael is now responsible for overseeing all of Linda's affairs in the 'Barnardo's' foundation.

A Legacy of Love and Dedication

Despite Linda's untimely death, Michael fondly remembers the ten years they spent together.

In 1993, she was featured on This Is Your Life. The same year, Bellingham was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, which fuelled a 2014 memoir, There's Something I'm Dying To Tell You. I spent the next sixteen years as the Nation’s treasure making gravy. Bellingham ended the decade with four seasons on All Creatures Great And Small.

From 2004, Bellingham reprised the Inquisitor for Big Finish Productions' range of Doctor Who audio dramas

Bellingham spent much of the Nineties starring in the sitcom Second Thoughts and its sequel, Faith In The Future; other appearances included Martin Chuzzlewit and Casualty.

Pattemore spoke of her dedication, saying, "If she discovered that she could help people in any way, no matter the effort or time required, she always took that step forward. Bellingham reprised the Inquisitor for Big Finish Productions' range of Doctor Who audio dramas, initially in the 2004 Gallifrey play Weapon Of Choice. She was adopted by the Bellingham family of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, who renamed her Lynda.

Bellingham co-starred in all fourteen episodes of Doctor Who's 1986 season. For a while thereafter, however, she became typecast in ribald comedies such as Tell Tarby. Here she played the Inquisitor, presiding over a tribunal interrogating the activities of Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor in The Trial Of A Time Lord. Other credits include ‘Don’t go breaking my heart’ and ‘The Scarlet Tunic’.

I did various commercials and finally found myself at the centre of the Oxo campaign.

Other Seventies television included recurring roles in Z Cars, Couples, The Fuzz and The Pink Medicine Show.

Amongst Bellingham's credits during the early Eighties were Mackenzie, Funny Man, Murphy's Mob and Angels.