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Post by Dabbit on Oct 11, 2008 0:59:38 GMT -5
It is dreadful news that Wendy Richard is dying! She has brought forward her wedding to her partner because of the agressive cancer that has taken over her body. She has of course successfully fought breast cancer previously (twice I think), but has been told she has no chance of surviving this aggressive cancer that has already spread to her right kidney and bones.
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Post by sandy on Oct 12, 2008 10:03:35 GMT -5
Who is Wendy Richards?
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Post by Dabbit on Oct 12, 2008 10:14:11 GMT -5
She is a British TV star Sandy who I used to love in are you being served. It is a shock to hear she is dying...
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Post by Mark on Oct 25, 2008 0:04:18 GMT -5
Yes, I remember her in that and from Eastenders as well. Indeed, shocking. She was quite a looker in her day.
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Post by Dabbit on Oct 26, 2008 3:21:04 GMT -5
I loved 'are you being served' when I was younger (and even now). I've never thought of her as a 'good' actress but nonetheless I have sort of grown up knowing her face on TV. I guess smoking didn't help her plight any?
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Post by Mark on Oct 26, 2008 9:15:47 GMT -5
Yes, I've watched her as Shirley Brahms in 'Are You Being Served?' for decades, and then slowly but surely I realized that Pauline Fowler of EastEnders was the one and same Wendy Richards. I always thought she brought a unique quality to her acting.
In fact, I watched an episode of 'Are You Being Served?' last evening. You may recall the episode when Mr. Grainger thought he was being made 'redundant' and thinking he'd when 400,000 pounds in a numbers pool (when in fact he'd only won about 50) wrote a scathing letter to the department store hierarchy. I watched her then fresh young face and couldn't quite relate her to her present visage.
I hear she recently married her longtime companion. I hope her last days are good ones.
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Post by Dabbit on Oct 28, 2008 2:08:33 GMT -5
She did marry him Mark a week or so back.
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