Brave Linda Nolan is all smiles as she enjoys ice-cream on stroll amid cancer battle
The Nolans star Linda Nolan put appeared to be in high spirits as she took a stroll in Stanley Park, Blackpool while enjoying an ice-cream
Linda Nolan insists you have to keep on laughing, even when you are fighting cancer.
The 61-year-old, part of iconic Irish girl group The Nolans, was diagnosed with liver cancer earlier this year.
But she was seen this week out for a stroll enjoying an ice cream at Stanley Park, Blackpool, after going public about her cancer returning.
Brave Linda was seen laughing and joking as she walked with a friend.
She and sister Anne, 69, have spoken of their devastation at being diagnosed with different forms of cancer, just a few days apart.
It came in March, shortly after they returned from filming a series of The Nolans Go Cruising. Anne has breast cancer and both have lost their hair due to the treatment.
Addressing her ordeal, Linda said: “You have to be able to laugh. Humour has to get you through it, otherwise you’d just curl up under the duvet and never come out – but that means cancer has won.”
She also praised the public for their reaction to their news, which she spoke about on Good Morning Britain earlier this month. In particular, people coming up to her in Blackpool to give support has given her a real boost.
She said it was “absolutely amazing” and added: “We’re always overwhelmed when something happens. The response you get from people who have kind of known you all your life, really.
“They feel they’ve grown up with you when you’re a performer and especially in Blackpool, it’s our hometown.”
Anne and Linda are having chemotherapy at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and it was reported they sat side-by-side for their first treatment on June 5.
Linda has had cancer before; breast cancer in 2006, cellulitis and lymphoedema in her arm in 2007, and secondary cancer on her pelvis in 2017.
Her husband, the Nolans’ former tour manager Brian Hudson, died in 2007.
She joked: “This is my third time with cancer now – I’m getting greedy. Don’t get me wrong, I’m scared to death and so was Anne. I don’t want to die, I really don’t.
“Anne wants to hug her daughters and her grandkids but then we’re back to Covid and we’ve no immune system.
“It’s scary and I wake up in the night and that is when I miss Brian more.”
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