Lynda Bellingham Ex-Husband: Who Is Nunzio Peluso?

Lynda Bellingham’s second marriage was to restaurantuer Nunzio Peluso, with whom she had two sons, Michael and Robbie. The couple were introduced to each other at the Italian restaurant La Famiglia in Chelsea, London in the early 1980s by a friend and fellow actor Christopher Biggins.

After a whirlwind courtship and romance, the couple married but the relationship was marred by Peluso’s jealousy of Bellingham’s former lovers leading to a series of altercations, fights and domestic abuse towards her.

Around the same time as Bellingham was being abused by Peluso, she was starring in Oxo adverts  and felt bound to hide the truth about her marriage for fear of spoiling her image in the commercials.

The couple divorced in 1996, Bellingham giving her former husband half of everything she owned, although he continued to intimidate her. A restraining order was granted in 2000 to keep Peluso away from his former wife.