Friends and family gather for Lynda Bellingham funeral
Friends and family have gathered for the funeral of actress and TV presenter Lynda Bellingham, who died from cancer last month.
Friends and family have gathered for the funeral of actress and TV presenter Lynda Bellingham, who died from cancer last month.
The husband of Lynda Bellingham has said the success of her memoir is the "best ever memorial" to the actress, who died last month after battling cancer.
Her book 'There's Something I've Been Dying To Tell You', discusses her illness in detail and has sold over 150,000 copies so far.
Her widower, Michael Pattermore, said: "The response to the book has meant so much to us. Lynda would be over the moon - and especially at all the news we are getting about how what she has said has helped so many people. For the boys and me, that's the best-ever memorial we can have for her."
Presenter Gyles Brandreth, who was a friend of Bellingham, said she would have been "thrilled beyond words to find that her book had become a number one best-seller".
A poignant letter Lynda Bellingham wrote to her two sons was read out by the pair at her funeral service in Somerset today.
ITV News readers have called for the return of the popular Oxo ad series this Christmas as a tribute following Lynda Bellingham's death.
The former panellist and Oxo mum made a final, moving return to the show earlier this month - in which she received a rapturous response.