Bread actress Eileen Pollock dead

BREAKING: Bread actress Eileen Pollock dead: Star of 80s BBC sitcom Bread who played Lilo Lill passes away aged 73

Bread actress Eileen Pollock, who played Lilo Lill has died aged 70.    

Her family said she died peacefully at home in London on Sunday.  

Actor Dan Gordon, Eileen’s co-star in Women On The Verge Of HR, told the Irish News: ‘We used to call her ‘Polly’s People’ because she picked up all the waifs and strays along the way and would never see them stuck.

Bread actress Eileen Pollock had died: The Star of 80s BBC sitcom Bread who played Lilo Lill has passed away aged 73

‘She’d meet someone in the town when we were on tour and say, ‘they’re down on their luck’ and would bring them to see the show and buy them a drink afterwards.

‘She was great fun and the one thing I remember is that I never saw her angry. I never once seen her cross with anyone.

‘She was an extraordinary woman, a beautiful person.’

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