Gazza | Interview | 4

British Scandal

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Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

4.5 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Alice speak to Linda Lusardi, former Page 3 model and close friend of Paul Gascoigne. She takes us inside the highs of their raucous nights out, and the lows of his battles with addiction. Plus, she tells us why Gazza’s life wouldn’t be all that different had he never become a footballer.

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0:00.0	Hello Prime Members, you can listen to British scandal one week early and ad free on Amazon
0:05.1	music or via the Wondry Plus subscription on the Wondry app or Apple podcasts.
0:22.0	From Wondry, I'm Matt Ford and I'm Alice Levine and this is British scandal.
0:30.9	So Alice, we've finished the story of the remarkable Paul Gazzegas coin and as a football fan,
0:41.6	this one has meant a lot to me. He was one of my heroes growing up but re-appraising your heroes
0:46.5	can be difficult. Yes, it's often what we are forced to do on British scandal, re-appraise these
0:51.4	stories with a modern lens and I suppose he is a prime example of one of those national figures,
0:57.4	those heroes who is made up of a lot of contradictions and lots of questions erased when you look back
1:03.2	30, 40 years at his career in his life. It's undeniable that he was a troubled figure, I don't
1:08.6	think you could listen to this series and not draw that conclusion. His addictions, his issues
1:13.0	with mental health, his difficulties with all of the public scrutiny but I think we've come to a
1:18.4	place where we've recognised that by focusing on that side of his personality, it's quite easy to
1:24.2	erase another component which is his abuse ofness and his violence towards his ex-wife Cheryl.
1:30.0	So he was on this path of self-destruction but let's not forget that that impacted everyone around him.
1:36.5	Well, I guess today knows a thing or two about being the subject of tabloid fascination
1:40.9	and scrutiny herself. Linda Lussardi is an actress and model who appeared as a page three girl in
1:46.2	the sun for over a decade. During this time she became close friends with Paul,
1:50.7	travelling the world with him and supporting him as he was catapulted to fame in the 1990s.
1:56.4	She joins us next.
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