Encore: Gazza | Actress and model Linda Lusardi on watching her friend, Paul Gascoigne shoot to fame | 4
British Scandal
Wondery
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
As a Page 3 model for over a decade, Linda Lusardi is no stranger to tabloid attention. And she saw first-hand the impact it had on her former neighbour, Paul Gascoigne, as his star rose. Linda takes Matt and Alice inside the highs of their raucous nights out, and the lows of Gazza's battles with addiction. Plus, she tells us why his life wouldn’t be all that different had he never become a footballer.
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| 0:00.0 | From Wonder, I'm Matt Ford and I'm Alice Levine and this is British scandal. So Alice we've finished the story of the remarkable Paul Gazagascoin and as a football fan |
| 0:30.9 | this one has meant a lot to me. |
| 0:32.7 | He was one of my heroes growing up, |
| 0:34.2 | but reappraising your heroes can be difficult. |
| 0:37.3 | Yes, it's often what we are forced to do on British scandal, |
| 0:40.3 | reappraise these stories with a modern lens. |
| 0:43.1 | And I suppose he is a prime example of one of those national figures, |
| 0:47.0 | those heroes, who is made up of a lot of contradictions. |
| 0:50.6 | And lots of questions are raised when you look back 30, 40 years at his career and his life. |
| 0:55.0 | It's undeniable that he was a troubled figure. |
| 0:58.0 | I don't think you could listen to this series and not draw that conclusion. |
| 1:01.0 | His addictions, his issues with mental health, his difficulties with all of the public scrutiny. |
| 1:06.3 | But I think we've come to a place where we've recognised that by focusing on that side of his personality, |
| 1:12.4 | it's quite easy to erase another component which is his |
| 1:16.2 | abuseiveness and his violence towards his ex-wife Cheryl. |
| 1:19.7 | So he was on this path of self-destruction, but let's not forget that that impacted everyone around him. |
| 1:26.0 | Well I guess today knows a thing or two about being the subject of tabloid fascination |
| 1:30.4 | and scrutiny herself. Linda Luzadi is an actress and model who appeared as a page 3 girl in the sun for over a decade. |
| 1:38.0 | During this time she became close friends with Paul, traveling the world with him and supporting him as he was catapulted to fame in the 1990s. |
| 1:45.1 | She joins us next. |
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