Linda Nolan has pulled out of her upcoming musical.
Linda Nolan
The 62-year-old singer had to step down from her role in the new show 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' as she battles her incurable secondary cancer.
However, she has enlisted the help of her sister, Maureen, to take her spot in the line up.
Maureen told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “I wish the circumstances were different, but I’m delighted to be joining this fabulous, fun production.
"I’m really looking forward to going on the road and performing to live audiences. It’s been far too long!”
Linda first battled breast cancer in 2006 and was given the all-clear in 2011 but the cancer had returned in 2017 in her liver.
She had signed up to take part in the musical for its 2020 run but now feels the touring schedule will be too much for her body as she has to have ongoing treatment to manage the cancer.
She said: “I’m gutted that I can’t do the tour. I was really excited but I know Maureen will do an amazing job.
“If anyone is going to take my place, I’m delighted that it’s Maureen. I’ll be cheering her on in the wings and dancing in the aisles!”
It comes after her sister, Coleen Nolan, revealed she had considered getting a double mastectomy after Linda and their sisters Anne and Bernie - who died from breast cancer in 2013 - were diagnosed.
She said: "I'm seriously looking into elective mastectomy. I've spoken to a specialist so far to see. "I've said, 'look what are my chances of this' and he said, 'incredibly high' and although we don't carry the gene – the known gene BRCA1 and BRCA2 – he said it will be gene related somewhere, it will just be a gene we haven’t found."
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