Paul O'Grady, who died on Tuesday at the age of 67, and the actress has revealed she spoke to the entertainer just hours before he passed away.
Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid began: "You talked to Paul hours before you discovered that he'd died. What a terrible shock for you. ""It is," Linda replied. "Paul rang me on Tuesday, the day before yesterday, at three o'clock and we spoke for an hour.
It must have been one of the best conversations we've ever had. "He'd just come back performing in a new production of Annie performing in Newcastle and Edinburgh.
He was heading down to Southampton in a few weeks and he'd heard from producers, they were going to bring it into town at Christmas time and he was actually over the moon. ""He loved the cast, he got on with everybody, he loved playing Miss Hannigan.
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