“When our wee Lena sang, she lit up the stage,” says Margaret Zavaroni. “But she was separated from her home, her family. I realise now she was separated from her own adolescence and in the end she ...

A powerful tale of young talent, fame’s toll and a heartbreaking struggle with an eating disorder, compelling documentary Lena Zavaroni: The Forgotten Child Star remembers the little girl with a big ...

THIS is Eating Disorders Awareness Week, highlighting a complex problem with potentially catastrophic consequences. Our subject this week, Lena Zavaroni, was an incredibly talented singer whose death ...

"If it was your own child and she had a career in front of her, and she was being successful in it, what would you think? "Would you let her do it or would you say, that’s enough, let us have her back ...

THE child star who preceded singing sensation Lena Zavaroni has revealed he was encouraged to lose weight by managers who told him he would be ‘paid a pound for every pound he lost.’ Neil Reid, from ...

Erin Armstrong is heartbreaking as Lena Zavaroni in Feather Productions’ new play about the rise and fall of the 1970s child star, writes Joyce McMillan The full moon was marking magical silver ...

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Lena Hilda Zavaroni (4 November 1963 – 1 October 1999) was a Scottish singer and television show host from Rothesay At the age of 10, with her album Ma! (He's Making Eyes at Me), she was the youngest ...

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