“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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Plucked from obscurity aged just 10, Lena Zavaroni's huge voice propelled her to fame on Opportunity Knocks. By 35 she was dead. In the age of social media, teen influencers and reality TV, ...

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 ...

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You remember that she came from Rothesay (she was born 60 years ago, in November 1963) and that she won Hughie Green’s Opportunity Knocks several times in a row in ...

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