Pauline Quirke News

But today Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke, who shot to fame on BBC1 sitcom Birds Of A Feather, are both slimline versions of their former selves.

She left several jaws dropping in amazement last summer when she unveiled her new, slimmer frame having shed almost a third of her body weight.

Linda Robson has followed in the footsteps of her former 'Birds Of A Feather' co-star Pauline Quirke by shedding a dramatic amount of weight.

It comes in the wake of her pal and Birds Of A Feather co-star Pauline Quirke also slimming down dramatically.

Birds Of A Feather star Linda Robson, who showed off her new size 12 figure in a photoshoot for Woman magazine Her huge weight loss, in a matter of only four months, comes in the wake of her pal and sitcom co-star Pauline Quirke's dramatic slimming.

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'I still don't,' she says. 'We've known one another since we were seven and eight years old and she's always been a big girl.

Hazel Rhodes was such a cheerful woman when she first arrived in Emmerdale, but you really wouldn't recognise her these days.

Pauline Quirke has said that she would be interested in returning to the popular ITV soap Emmerdale after she recently filmed her final scenes on set.