She burst on to the Loose Women panel in 2019, and singer Brenda Edwards quickly won over viewers with her infectious laugh and larger-than-life personality.
Yet behind her smiles, the former contestant, 54, has endured unimaginable grief. She lost her music mogul son Jamal Edwards, 31, to a heart attack in February last year and both her parents died in a car crash three days before Christmas when she was just four years old – she and her brother were raised by their grandmother in Luton. Amazingly, the West End star