Biography

Lynn Faulds Wood was born on March 25, 1948 in Hillhead, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Only Fools and Horses: White Mice (1985), The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (2007) and Cluedo (1990). She was married to John Stapleton. She died on April 24, 2020 in Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, London, England, UK.

Has beaten both skin and bowel cancer and now campaigns in raising the awareness of the latter.

Born in Glasgow, she grew up on Loch Lomonside.

When she and husband John Stapleton co-presented Watchdog (1985), they became the first husband-and-wife team to present a BBC TV show, preceding spouses Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan's Richard & Judy (2001).

Parents with John Stapleton of Nick Stapleton.

[on turning down an MBE in 2016] I would love to have an honour if it didn't have the word 'empire' on the end of it. We don't have an empire, in my opinion. I think honours are really important and should be given to people who have done really good stuff. And I've changed laws and I've helped saved a lot of people's lives, so maybe I'm deserving of an honour, but I just wouldn't accept it while we still have party donors donating huge amounts of money and getting an honour. We're a very backward-looking country at the moment. We shouldn't have lords and ladies and sirs. We should give people honours, yes, because plenty of people deserve them, including, I hope, myself. But it's not a fair system.