1. Linda Frances Elide Lusardi was born on 18 September 1958 and is an English actress, television presenter and former glamour model.
18 Facts About Linda Lusardi
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Linda Lusardi's mother was born in Edmonton, Middlesex and her father in Hackney, East London, to Italian parents.
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Linda Lusardi appeared nude in the men's magazines Mayfair in February 1977 and Fiesta in November 1977.
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Linda Lusardi has appeared in movies including Snappers, The Zero Imperative, Oh Minnie, Consuming Passions and The Krays: Dead Man Walking.
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Linda Lusardi took her own show to the British Forces in Belize, the Falklands and Northern Ireland.
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Linda Lusardi is a supporter of UK pantomime and often stars with her husband Sam Kane each Christmas at major theatres in the UK.
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Linda Lusardi appeared in two series of A Kind of Magic, as assistant to Wayne Dobson on ITV, and a season of Loose Women in 2002.
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Linda Lusardi later returned in 2014 to 2015 and made a few guest panellist appearances.
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Linda Lusardi sells Lusardi My Miracle, a range of skin-care products, on the shopping television channel Ideal World.
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Linda Lusardi appeared briefly as herself in the BBC sitcom Detectorists.
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In January 2008, Linda Lusardi joined ITV's Dancing on Ice, finishing in sixth place.
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Linda Lusardi had to catch up with her fellow skaters after falling and breaking a bone in her foot during her first hour on the ice.
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Linda Lusardi won the Channel 4 show Celebrity Come Dine With Me in 2008.
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Linda Lusardi participated in the 2011 series of Celebrity Masterchef, where she reached the final five.
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In 1998, Linda Lusardi married actor Samuel Kane and they have a son and daughter.
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Linda Lusardi is a patron of two charities, the Willow Foundation and the Rhys Daniels Trust.
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In March 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, Linda Lusardi was diagnosed with COVID-19 and was admitted to hospital.
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Linda Lusardi tweeted that she had "never felt this ill" but later made a full recovery.