Marti Caine
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
| - | '' | + | Born Lynne Shepherd, Marti Caine started out as a comedian playing in working men's clubs at the age of 18, before achieving national fame twelve years later by winning [[New Faces]]. Later achievements included a sitcom, ''Marti'', and a three-year stint as host of the revived ''New Faces''. |
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| + | She was diagnosed with lymphoma in 1988 and given two years to live, but carried on working until 1992. Defiant to the end (she once joked, "chemo's a piece of cake after BBC coffee"), she died in 1995, aged 50. | ||
== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
Revision as of 10:27, 6 March 2007
Biography
Born Lynne Shepherd, Marti Caine started out as a comedian playing in working men's clubs at the age of 18, before achieving national fame twelve years later by winning New Faces. Later achievements included a sitcom, Marti, and a three-year stint as host of the revived New Faces.
She was diagnosed with lymphoma in 1988 and given two years to live, but carried on working until 1992. Defiant to the end (she once joked, "chemo's a piece of cake after BBC coffee"), she died in 1995, aged 50.
Trivia
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