Well I am absolutely delighted to have become part of the Loose Women Team. I appeared on the show when it first started over 10 years ago and its great to be back. The format is more up to date and I love the new ladies they have bought on board. I am doing my second show this Friday 17th.

Sam and I are busy getting The Bull Theatre Panto on. They are doing Dick Whittington in Barnet. Its going to be a great show. Sam is directing and I have taken all the pictures and created the art work. We are very excited as it the first professional Panto they have had there in years. Its well worth a visit. 

   

We won't get to see it as we will be in our Panto in Cardiff. We are doing Cinderella and I am Fairy Godmother. Its a change from being wicked. Sam is doing ugly sister. Its going to be very strange waiting for him to take his make up off at the end of the show.

Finally I must plug my daughter Lucy's Panto in Swindon. She is playing Alice in Dick Whittington. It will be her first year away from us over Christmas. 

If I don't talk to you before, have a wonderful Christmas and come and see us if you are in the Cardiff area.

Lots of love

Linda x

Just got back from an exciting day launching my new range of cloths by JAMI. The buzz was amazing and all the stockists and press just loved the designs. Take a look at
www.jamiclothing.com
We were at the beautiful Bloomsbury Hotel in London with Champaign and nibbles. Thank you to all the lovely people that turned up to support us with this new Autumn/Winter range.

I’m very proud and excited to be launching my new Autumn/Winter range for JAMI. This is the first time I have been involved in designing and creating new styles that will be available in high-end boutiques both in the UK and globally.

“The fabrics and colours that we are using are easy to wear and comfortable – this is exactly the type of style and design that I love. The versatile range allows you to dress up in high heels and jewellery for an evening out or simply put flip-flops on and wear them on holiday.

“Many women over 50, as I am, do not want to have their arms showing and sometimes their waist line is not as slim as they would like, the fact that you can layer these colours and styles makes you feel more confident about your figure. Having said that, the range is also cross-generational – my teenage daughter has introduced all her friends to it!

“All the garments are made inside the UK and the quality of the fabric makes them long-lasting and they won’t go out of shape in the wash.

“I’ve had a lot of fun working with the team on these designs and I hope you love the range as much as I do.

Check out the photo shoot for the range...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axHPV44-_88

I was so privileged to give out an award at the Women Of Inspiration for Breakthrough Breast Cancer on Saturday. So many brave women. It was heart breaking to see Steve, Bernie Nolan's husband and their daughter Erin. Linda Nolan was there with them to collect an award for Bernie who lost her battle with Cancer earlier this year. It only seems like months ago we had a BBQ in my garden and Bernie was on the mend.

Some pictures from the night
Steve, Erin, Linda                                                   Me and Spencer

Me and Louise

 I took Lucy and Jack to the Teens Unite charity Purple Tie event at Paradise Park. Teens Unite do some amazing work supporting teenagers with cancer. It was a wonderful night full of inspirational heart felt stories from the teenagers.

me Lucy and Jack

So excited about the launch of my clothing range on Monday. Watch this space !!!!

Hi Its April already and I haven't written anything since October 2012. I must be the worst blogger ever. Well lets see what have i been up to .....
Panto Season in Darlington was just brilliant. Its the fist time I have played Carrabosse in Sleeping Beauty and I loved it. We had a great cast including Philip Meeks who played the Dame and has become a close friend. We are going to be in Northampton next year

Philip at Nurse Dolly

He is a great writer and he used to write scripts for Emmerdale when I was in the show. He has a wonderful horror story we are hoping to make into a film. We had some positive meetings about it last week. I will keep you posted. My skincare range is going really well. I am doing Pick of The Day on the 6th May and the range will be at its best ever price.

Tune into to Pick of The Day 6th May Ideal World Shopping Chanel 

Sam is away doing his one man show on cruise ships at the moment but he had a part playing a cop earlier this year in the new Danny Dyer film Vendetta so look out for that one..

Sam Kane in Vendetta

It was fun seeing the picture I took of Danny Dyer in Leicester Square at the Premier of Run For Your Wife. I have never seen my picture blown up to 50 ft high.

Run for Your Wife

I have been working with Pharma Nord to promote their Omega 7. It is fantastic and I have been taking it for a year now. I had very dry eyes in the mornings and it has got rid of the symptoms completely. It has also helped with my back ache. Brilliant stuff check it out. 

I have just signed a big deal which is happening in September so let you know more about that then. 

The children are both fit and well and Lucy auditioned for Italia Conti Drama college and was excepted so thats her sorted for when she leaves school in the summer.

Life is good and the sun is out today. Off for Sunday lunch in the pub now.

Talk to you soon

Love Linda x  

Had a lovely time doing a make over day with the Ladies from Chestnut Tree House Hospice this week. The work they do there is so important and it was nice to be able to pamper them for a day.
Last night we went to the regional premier of 'Skyfall'. It was brilliant and a welcome return to the old style Bond Movies with that occasional unexpected witty comment thrown in. The kids loved it and they got to sit in a 1966 Aston Martin.

My manager David Hill also enjoyed being Bond for the night along with Jacks friend Sam.

I am thrilled to receive Ideal Worlds Beauty Award for the best cleanser for MY MIRACLE skincare range. Thanks to all of you who voted for it.

It will soon be Panto time so and I am joining Sam on one of his working cruises to Barbados next month before Sleeping Beauty in Darlington starts.

Hi There,
So sad summer is nearly over but what a brilliant one with the Olympics and Celebrity Big Brother. I really enjoyed appearing on Big Brothers Bit on The Side. Got to meet Prince Lorenzo and Julie Goodyear. I don't think she did herself any favours the way she behaved. Tried to ask her about it but she wasn't having any of it. I think the right person won. Just love Julian.

Taking part in the BGC Charity day today at Canary Wharf. Should raise lots of money for my chosen charity The Willow Foundation.

Can't beleive my little Lucy was 16 years old yesterday. It seems like she was only born yesterday. I love her so much she is the nicest person and I have never had teenage strops from her at all. We are going to see Matilda with her friend on Sat night.

We are up in Darlington for the press launch for the Panto next week. We are in Sleeping Beauty this year and I am playing the bad fairy Carabosse. It should be a great show and Darlington holds some happy memories of us as that is the venue where Sam and I met 18 years ago.

Thanks for reading my blog and I will write again soon.

Lots of love

Linda x x x

Well Jack and Sam are back from Portugal and they had a great time. Jack was a little star by all accounts. He was filming for Barclaycard and he said the villa they were shooting in was amazing. I am so proud of him.
Lucy had an audition for a girl band and she sang in front of Tom form The Wanted. She was brilliant.
We went to Zoe Tylers Wedding on Sunday and had a really good laugh with a lot of our old mates. Look out for the pictures in OK mag.

Had a few charity gigs this week. Took delivery of a photocopier donated to The Rhys Daniels Trust. They are a fantastic charity. Joined the nurses and staff at Kings Oak Hospital to help raise money for cancer research. x x x

Hi All,
I can't beleive it is June already. Its been a busy year. Jack is off to Portugal next week on a job for Barclaycard. I am on Ideal World on Wed 27th  at 3pm and 8pm with 'My Miracle' skin care range. I had a very exciting meeting up in Peterborough yesterday and we are going to be adding so products to the range starting with a neck cream in September. I am getting involved with
The Thomas Cook Children's Charity
http://sustainability2010.thomascookgroup.com/communities/charity.html
I have just judged a photo competition for them. I hope you like my choice.. 

The winner wins a 20k Thomas Cook dream holiday. Well done x

We had a week in Spain with the children supporting The Rhys Daniels Trust. Lucy, Jack and Sam sang at the event held by Max Clifford. It raised about £75,000 for the charity

http://rhysdanielstrust.org/

Going to see our good mate Leslie Joseph in 'Birds of a Feather' in High Wycombe on Friday.

Love to you all

Linda x x x

I went to see Dancing on Ice the other week and I can't wait for the final on Sunday. I really hope Matthew Wolfendon wins. He's an old mate from Emmerdale. His girlfriend is Charlie Web who plays Debbie Dingle also in Emmerdale. He is such a brilliant skater and to think he'd had no training up until 3 months ago. I was lucky enough to be asked to judge on a couple of the tour dates last year and the show is just amazing. For some good deals on tickets go to

: http://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/dancing-on-ice-tickets?c=fb_ext_doi10_190112

might see you there.

Love

Linda x

Jack, me, Nikki, and Lucy

Me and Sam with 'The Grumblweeds' Graham and Robin

Look how tall Lucy is now. She's so beautiful..

We are home after a long season in Wolverhampton. The show broke box office records and got great reviews. Can't ask for more than that. We had a fabulous time and made some really good friend and reaquainted with some old ones. The Grumblweeds were fantastic and I love them to bits. I haven't worked with them for year and I had forgotten how funny they are. Nikki Evans was the fairy in the show this year and what a great lady she is. She has one of the best female voices I have ever heard. Have some exciting projects bubbling under so I will tell you more soon. Bye for now love Linda x x

I can not believe I got through to the semi finals of Masterchef. It was one of the most stressful programmes I have ever been involved with. I didn't ever think I would cry over cooking but I did. My cooking skills have improved immensely and I wouldn't have missed the experience. It gets really gruelling in the next round with more invention tests and cooking on mass. John and Gregg are so serious it makes you very nervous although Gregg did crack a funny line when I Darren and I were cooking the 10 breakfasts. He walked passed and said to me "No one could ever accuse you of having two fried eggs" naughty boy!

Looking forward to Snow White at The Grand Theatre Wolverhampton this year. We have a great cast with my hubby Sam Kane as the Prince, Nicky Evens from Xfactor as the Fairy and the fantastically funny Grumblweeds providing the comedy.

Talk to you soon love Linda x x x

Well I promised to blog more regularly but I haven't. Just become a Tweeter. It is great fun and so instant. I will try to keep in touch on the blog too. We have a new addition to our family. Thumper a miniature lop eared rabbit and he is adorable. He lives in hutch in my son's bedroom. We have to make sure Koko our little sausage dog doesn't get in there when bunny is out running about. Koko would think its an early lunch. x x x

Hi There, God I am bad at this. It is going to be my new years resolution to make entries to my blog more often. Well we had a fabulous Panto season in Llandudno even though we battled the snow most days. My poor little miniature dachshund, Koko had to be carried everywhere as her little tummy was on the cold snow. Back home now and the diary is filling up with work. I am back on Ideal World on 8th Feb shows at 2pm and 8pm and will be starting work on a BBC show on Monday. Our little girl Lucy who is now 14 years old sang last night to a 20.000 strong audience at the O2 Arena last night. She sang "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" for the charity Voice in a Million. She was amazing and I couldn't stop crying. She has the most gorgeous voice. You can watch some of her performances on youtube ( Lucy Kane ). I promise to write again soon.

Bye for now x

Hi there, Well I have done 4 shows on Ideal World with Lusardi My Miracle skin care range and I am so relieved that you seem to like it. The feed back we have had has all been positive and I am back on screen on Wed 29th September. Thank you to all those ladies out there (and men) who took a chance on trying my range I really hope it gives you the results your are hoping for as it did for me.

To have a look at the range go to

www.idealworld.tv/linda-lusardi-my-miracle-online-shop.

My daughter Lucy has taken part in a recording for 'A Voice in a Million' charity record that goes on sale in Sept. She is singing 'First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'. To support the charity go www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/16164426/Smile/Product.html

She has an amazing voice and I am so proud of her. I can't believe we have already had a photo call for Panto. Its still summer!

Talk to you soon love Linda x

Hi there, My creams are nearly ready hooray. I am launching them on Ideal World Shopping Channel on July 28th. I also went to Thorsby Hall in Nottingham this week to film the competition slot for GMTV so look out for that the week commencing 12 July. Its on about 5 times each morning that week. Its a Warners Holiday Hotel and it is breath taking. The staff there we real sports and joined in with the filming. I might even go back for a weekend break with Sam.

I have had a new website made for my photography it will be running very soon at

www.lindalusardiphotography.com. Just to let you know that the Linda Lusardi on face book is NOT me. I have already had a couple of impostors removed but there is yet another. So I apologize to you if any of you have contacted me. I think there should be a law against it. Enjoy the sunshine

Love

Linda x

Hiya, God I am useless at keeping this up to date. Well I did a tour of Viva Broadway which was songs from the musicals. Then I went off to Switzerland to finalize my new skin care range. It is absolutely fabulous and I can wait to share it with everyone when I start to promote it on Ideal World Shopping Channel next month. We have been given 28th July as our first date. I have been really busy in the photographic studio not only doing my make over days but I did some lovely shots of Anthony Costa and Bradley Walsh last week. I will try not to leave it so long next time. Bye for now x