Linda Nolan online death hoax forces star's family to issue a stern statement

04 May 2023 , 15:42

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Linda Nolan online death hoax forces star's family to issue a stern statement

The Nolan sisters have been forced to deny Linda has died amid her battle with cancer.

The band shared a tweet from a radio DJ mistakenly saying the sister had died and sharing a photo of her, with the group writing on Twitter: "Just over 20 minutes since this was tweeted and the sheer volume of calls we’ve received because of this. Linda Nolan is absolutely NOT dead."

Tony Airey shared an image of Linda, 64, earlier this afternoon and told his 349 followers: "So sad to read that @LindaNolan_ has died i have so many memories seeing the Nolans at concerts i still have a signed photo from 83 Crawley Sports Centre West Sussex loved playing their music on my mobile disco & hospital radio crawley sending condolences to family R.I.P Linda."

Linda Nolan is battling cancer (Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Twitter users are now pleading with Tony to remove the tweet following Linda's sisters confirming the star is still very much alive, with one telling the radio DJ: "Do the right thing and delete this please!!!!!"

Another added: "You are a disgrace, kindly remove the tweet, so unfair of you to that to the family and @LindaNolan_ fans. Some fan you are."

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"Was talking to her an hour ago, seems well enough to me," a third wrote online.

Linda's family were forced to deny she had died (Twitter/@The_Nolans)

Last month Linda said she was about to start taking a "wonder drug" for her brain tumours, which she hopes will give her "more time" following her heartbreaking diagnosis.

The Irish singer, 64, fears it’s now a "one-way trip" after her incurable cancer, first diagnosed six years ago, was found to have spread to her brain.

Linda received the devastating news six weeks ago, where doctors warned her not to "compare herself" to her late sister Bernie, who died following a battle with breast cancer age 52 in 2013.

"I’ve had radiotherapy and soon I’ll be starting a drug for brain tumours, which is being nailed as a wonder drug - alongside another chemo drug.

"When I was on chemo in 2020 I stayed on it until I couldn’t handle it. So if it’s working, we’ll go with it. Anything that’ll give me time," she told Women magazine.

She added: "They keep telling me not compare myself to Bernie, because ten years have gone by and they didn’t have these drugs then."

Linda with her sisters Coleen, Bernie and Maureen

The singer was first diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in 2005 before getting the all-clear in 2006, but in 2017 was diagnosed with a form of incurable secondary cancer in her hip, which later spread to her liver in 2020.

She has lost her husband Brian and younger sister Bernie to the disease, and watched eldest sister Anne successfully fight it.

Katherine Heslop