Pauline Quirke's quit Birds of a Feather for devastating reason before dementia diagnosis

Loose Women's Linda Robson has been friends with Pauline Quirke for much than 50 years and revealed the heartbreaking crushed she decided to measurement distant from Birds of a Feather

Linda Robson erstwhile revealed the heartbreaking crushed her Birds of a Feather co-star Pauline Quirke near the show.

Pauline, 65, who was known for playing Sharon Theodopolopodous successful the archetypal bid of the sitcom and its revival betwixt 2014 and 2017, has been diagnosed with dementia. Her hubby Steve Sheen announced she is acceptable to "step distant from each commercialized and nonrecreational duties" to walk clip with her family.

Steve said successful the statement: "'It is with a dense bosom that I denote my woman Pauline's determination to measurement backmost from each nonrecreational and commercialized duties owed to her diagnosis of Dementia successful 2021." Loose Women prima Linda, 65, explained past twelvemonth that Pauline missed her household and ne'er enjoyed performing successful beforehand of a unrecorded assemblage arsenic she “doubted herself”.

Linda said: “When we finished enactment astatine night, Pauline couldn’t hold to get location [...] and we each knew that she had ne'er enjoyed the workplace days wherever we had to execute successful beforehand of the unrecorded audience. For idiosyncratic who is arsenic superb arsenic Pauline, it’s truly bittersweet however overmuch she doubts her ain quality and gets herself truthful nervous.”

Speaking to Mail+ , Linda adjacent shared the nonstop mode Pauline told her she didn’t privation to bash the Birds of a Feather Christmas peculiar commissioned successful 2020. “‘I don’t privation to enactment immoderate more’ she said,” Linda told the outlet, noting that Pauline continued: “‘It’s not Birds Of A Feather itself, it’s everything. I consciousness similar I’m done with it. I consciousness atrocious for you two, but you tin spell connected without me’.”

After the quality was announced, Linda said she knew that rumours would circulate that the brace had fallen out. In the aforesaid interview, Linda was speedy to determination acold h2o connected reports that she has a "feud" with Pauline, who she has had a relationship with for implicit 50 years.

The ITV panellist has said that determination has ne'er been immoderate fallout betwixt the pair, who met erstwhile astatine a North London superior school. Linda described however they had been pals since superior schoolhouse and utilized to play games unneurotic successful the streets aft schoolhouse earlier joining a play nine arsenic they headed into their teenage years.

They yet deed the heights successful the 1980s erstwhile Birds of a Feather became arsenic fashionable arsenic Only Fools and Horses, bringing successful tens of millions of viewers with each episode. Linda was steadfast successful saying that her relationship with Pauline would outlive immoderate TV amusement arsenic they had been determination "for each different done heavy and bladed and for each azygous large beingness event”.

They were past seen publically unneurotic successful 2022, erstwhile they looked to hide immoderate fallout rumours by gathering up with their Birds of a Feather co-star Lesley Joseph for a luncheon successful Central London.

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