Oxo mum Lynda Bellingham confirms terminal cancer

Actress Lynda Bellingham has confirmed she has terminal cancer and will stop her chemotherapy within weeks.

This will allow the 66-year-old star, who is best known as a regular panellist on ITV's Loose Women and as the Oxo mum, to spend one more Christmas with her family.

Bellingham has been battling colon cancer, which later spread to her lungs and liver, since been diagnosed in July 2013.

Earlier this year she picked up an OBE for recognition of her acting career which has spanned 40 years.

Highlights included TV series All Creatures Great And Small, competing in Strictly Come Dancing and starring in the touring stage production of Calendar Girls.

Bellingham, whose sister Barbara died from lung cancer, has written an autobiography Memoir, which details her own battle with the disease. It will be released on October 9.