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TV trailblazer Kay Mellor who created Band Of Gold and Fat Friends leaves £13.2million to her family after dying aged 72

TV trailblazer Kay Mellor - who created Band Of Gold and Fat Friends - left more than £13.2million to her family after she died aged 72. One of Britain's finest TV writers and a trailblazer for British working class drama over the past three decades, Mellor died suddenly in May 2022, just days after her 71st birthday Gaynor Faye and …

The woman who turned her life into TV gold: How Kay Mellor had experience of so many women's worries

Screenwriter Kay Mellor has died suddenly aged 71. Fat Friends followed cemented Mellor's reputation as an unequalled writer of dramas with multiple plotlines The actress and later screenwriter was not afraid to turn down Hollywood offers in order to retain control of her work Families, the soap opera set in Australia and Cheshire, which ran for 320 episodes from 1990 …

Kay Mellor: Fat Friends and Band of Gold writer dies aged 71

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Kay Mellor, the writer behind hit series including Fat Friends, Band …

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Ruth Jones leads tributes to Girlfriends and Band Of Gold writer Kay Mellor

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Welsh actress Ruth Jones has paid tribute to Kay Mellor …