Lynda Bellingham was born in Meredith Hughes in Montreal to a single mother but was given up for adoption because she was born out of wedlock in a strict church-going family. She was adopted when she was four months old.
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Her mother was Majorie Hughes Bond and her adoptive parents were Donald Bellingham and Ruth Bellingham. There isn’t much information about her mother and her adoptive parents on the internet.
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Bellingham made her television debut as a nurse in an ITV afternoon soap opera of the 1970s, General Hospital. From 2000 to 2003, Bellingham played Pauline Farnell, the compassionate accountant in At Home with Braithwaites with Amanda Redman and former All Creatures Great and Small colleague Peter Davison.
In 2009, Bellingham was one of the contestants in the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing, where she was partnered with Darren Bennett. However, she was voted out by the judges in the 4th week.
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