Linda Lusardi's Very Special Birthday Present

Linda Lusardi and Sam Kane are one of the UK's best-known celebrity couples. They must also be amongst the busiest. As is often the case, each of them is probably best known for a particular moment in their working lives - even though both careers have moved onwards and upwards since their respective moments of initial fame. For Linda that point was a spectacularly successful career as one of the country's top models, while for Sam it was a role in a popular television soap opera.

These days, in addition to frequent television appearances, Linda is kept busy promoting her own range of beauty products, and Sam has only recently found time to take a break from the stage work that has kept him busy since his last TV role. Any rest, however, will necessarily be brief as the couple have to prepare for the hectic pantomime season, which will keep them fully occupied at the end of the year.

Regtransfers visited Sam and Linda at their home in Hertfordshire to deliver the personalised number plates that Sam had bought Linda for her birthday in September. What we expected to be a short visit turned out to be a very enjoyable day that kept our interviewer and photographer so ‘busy' that they didn't make it back to the office at all that afternoon…

LU54 RDY is Linda's first personal car registration, although several years ago at a photo shoot she was offered a chance to buy L1 NDA. “Oh it was perfect, absolutely perfect,” she says. “They said I could buy it if I wanted to before they sold it at an auction. Ah, but they only gave me one evening to decide because it was going to auction the next day.” Sadly, Linda couldn't talk her husband at the time into agreeing to the purchase, so the registration was sold at auction. “Every time I think about that I kick myself that I didn't buy it!

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