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LINDA ROBSON: In the Birds of A Feather years, I spent like there was no tomorrow. I blew the lot. Now I get an allowance. I've been really rich and I've been really, really poor... I don't want to be either of them ever again


Linda Robson charts her rise to fame and fortune through the success of the BBC sitcom Birds Of A Feather in the second part of her book.

I remember once sitting in a cafe with her when this woman approached us out of nowhere, pointed to the chips on my plate and said to me, ‘You don’t want to eat that – you’ll end up looking like her.’ She nodded towards Pauline. We were all having a drink after work one night, when one of the accountants let it slip that over on Only Fools And Horses, David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst were getting paid double the amount we were per episode. We took regular holidays abroad and our house was filled with lovely furniture, lights which cost a fortune from Liberty’s, and wallpaper and cushions by Designers Guild.

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