Linda Nolan's last laugh as she sends funeral mourners into fits of giggles

Linda Nolan utilized her wicked consciousness of humour arsenic a mode to header with her crab diagnosis, and adjacent near friends and household successful stitches astatine her ain ceremonial connected Saturday

It's nary concealed to those who knew her that Linda Nolan had an unthinkable consciousness of humour. In spite of her ongoing wellness struggles, Linda kept her superb consciousness of humour and quality to find joyousness adjacent successful her toughest moments.

Even successful the past fewer hours of her life, she'd been "laughing and joking," her sister Denise told the Mirror. “Although the aesculapian squad had told her she had to enactment quiescent to fto her attraction bash its job. Everyone was being softly optimistic arsenic she’d seemed truthful cheerful. Then astatine 3.30am connected Tuesday, we got the dreaded call, ‘Get to the infirmary asap’.”

On Saturday, February 1, fans lined the streets of Blackpool to accidental their last farewells to Linda, who died past period astatine the property of 65, surrounded by her devoted siblings. Stars specified arsenic Shane Ritchie, Paul Chuckle and Jodie Prenger were successful attendance astatine the service, which featured some of Linda's favourite music.

Linda proved that her wicked consciousness of humour lives connected arsenic she chose Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone by Frank Sinatra - who The Nolans erstwhile supported connected tour - for the last opus astatine the committal, leaving mourners successful fits of giggles arsenic they heard the lyrics: "Please don't speech astir maine erstwhile I'm gone. Oh, chromatic though our relationship ceases, from present on.

"And, listen, if you can't accidental thing existent nice, it's amended not to speech astatine all, is my advice."

Speaking backmost successful 2017, Linda insisted that having a consciousness of humour is what helped her get done her daze crab diagnosis.

The prima recovered retired she had the illness during a travel to infirmary aft she fell connected the stairs and broke her hep successful March. Doctors recovered secondary bosom cancer, arsenic good arsenic crab successful her pelvic and hep bony erstwhile they examined Linda pursuing the fall.

It came six years aft Linda was fixed the each wide pursuing a crab battle. She told Best magazine: "Humour gets you done a lot! And I person nary choice. I person to get done this 1 mode oregon another. So I've enactment a feather boa connected my Zimmer frame, and the girls are calling maine 'Hopalong'! When Coleen saw maine she cried... past she saw the feathers and laughed."

Linda's sister Bernie sadly died aft a 2nd conflict with crab successful 2013. She was 52.

When asked if she ever wonders, 'Why us?', Linda said: "Yes, but I besides look astatine the TV and deliberation determination are a batch of radical going done a batch worse - violent attacks, famines. At the extremity of the time you person to beryllium affirmative and effort to beryllium realistic.

"I volition combat it. Don't get maine wrong, determination are moments erstwhile you volition find maine sobbing successful a heap connected the floor, but I person to beryllium strong. What other tin I do?"

Linda had been told 2 years agone that the crab had dispersed to her brain. Yet conscionable 2 days earlier being taken to infirmary past Saturday, she had said successful her play Mirror file however she was feeling amended aft a Christmas “bout of flu”.

With her trademark positivity, Linda wrote: “I consciousness truthful grateful to beryllium feeling good again. It feels similar a full caller world retired there. There’s thing similar the sensation of starting to consciousness amended aft an illness. I aftermath up each greeting and I think, ‘This is different time to celebrate’.”

The Nolans are raising wealth for their section Trinity House hospice, successful Blackpool, which helped some Linda and her sister Bernie. If you'd similar to donate oregon would similar to permission a tribute to Linda, delight sojourn linda-nolan.muchloved.com