Issue 34 - 2022 - Best (2024)

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IN THIS ISSUEGOODBYE TOSandra DeeOlivia Newton-John died last week (see page 9) and I’m sure this evoked a lot of your personal memories of watching Grease for the first time.The film was first released in 1978, and the LP was duly bought by me from Woolworths’ record counter. I was word-perfect in weeks on all songs, thanks to my trusty red record player!I’m not sure if it was that Summer, or a few Summers later, but I begged my mother to buy me the famous stretchy trousers from the final scene. And she did! As well as the jacket, but in lilac with a lion emblazoned on the back. I thought I looked the bee’s knees… let’s just say you couldn’t miss me at the school disco.Sadly, I couldn’t find a picture or I…1 min

ON THE COVER‘The pain is still very raw’On screen as Emmerdale’s Mandy Dingle, actress Lisa Riley is bubbly beyond measure.But behind the scenes, Lisa, 46, has been coming to terms with a heartbreaking tragedy.Lisa was devastated when her fiancé Al’s mum – who she sweetly called ‘Nana’ – passed away earlier this year aged 79, after a battle with cancer.But, as well as dealing with the sad loss and supporting Al, Lisa has revealed it brought back tough memories of when she lost her own beloved mum, Cath, to the same disease 10 years ago.Opening up for the first time in a heartfelt interview, Lisa explained, ‘I have spoken openly before about how my parents’ mums both died young and how I always called Al’s mum, Nana.‘She sadly lost her battle with cancer and it’s been horrible.‘It…2 min

ON THE COVER‘My mum, my best friend’Her death on Monday 8 August, aged 73, rocked the showbiz world. And one of the first celebrities to pay tribute to Olivia Newton-John was her Grease co-star John Travolta, who wrote: ‘My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better… We will see you down the road and we will all be together again… Your Danny, your John!’But it was the tribute of Olivia Newton-John’s grieving daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, to her beloved mother – who had seen her through so much – that was the most moving.The British-Australian icon passed away peacefully at her southern Californian ranch surrounded by family and friends, including husband John Easterling, following a 30-year battle with breast cancer.Daughter Chloe, 36, a singer and Olivia’s only child with ex-husband Matt Lattanzi, had…3 min

ON THE COVERThere’s life in this old bird yet!Loose Woman Denise Welch is playing an eccentric, party animal grandma for her latest acting role, a hilarious one-part pilot show for Dave, Dead Canny. It follows Kaylee Bell (played by Sarah Balfour) a shrewd young psychic, whose ability to see dead people earns her a few quid down the pub. Unfortunately, it turns out people are as annoying dead as they are alive and her ability leaves her as the prime suspect in a murder investigation! Denise, 64, who plays Kaylee’s grandma Angela, talks about the comedy, Loose Women, bikini snaps and airing dirty linen in public!Denise, how are you?Great, thanks! Though I just did Loose Women, and I was in a right rage – but that’s Loose Women, we’re always in a rage and that’s OK! It was…5 min

SHOWBIZ‘Princess Anne was very chatty!’She’s a one-woman force of nature, who set up a foundation to help burns victims, shimmied across the Strictly dancefloor with Gorka Marquez in 2018, and is a regular face on Loose Women, among many other projects (!). And now, presenter and philanthropist Katie Piper, 38 – is shaking up Sunday mornings until 11 September, with her very own ITV chatshow. The wonderfully positive mum-of-two (she has Penelope, four, and Belle, eight, with husband, Richard Sutton), tells us more about why she’s loving doing something a little ‘fluffier’, for a change…Congrats on the new breakfast show!Thank you! It’s always been on my bucket list. I’m very excited to be waking up the nation every Sunday. It’s funny, it’s on at 8.30am on a Sunday – but as a mum of…5 min

Issue 34 - 2022 - Best (2024)

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