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Revealed: How Birds Of A Feather stars ended their vicious feud. After Pauline Quirke's shock diagnosis, KATIE HIND discloses for the first time the full details of their reconciliation
Best friends from the age of ten, Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson were inseparable growing up. At a performing arts school in North London in the 1970s, both girls dreamed of becoming stars.
In the early hours of yesterday morning, her husband and agent Steve Sheen issued a heartbreaking statement: 'It is with a heavy heart that I announce my wife Pauline's decision to step back from all professional and commercial duties due to her diagnosis of dementia in 2021.' The two actresses – along with Lesley Joseph, who played the sisters' next-door neighbour and had remained close with Linda – had met up for lunch in 2022 and shared a photo of themselves on social media in an attempt to dispel rumours of a feud. The pair's fallout marked an end to Pauline's character, whose absence from the 2020 Christmas special was explained by Sharon having gone on a cruise and married a Costa Rican hunk.
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