Loose Women's Lisa: 'I'd consider adopting'

Loose Women's Lisa: 'I'd consider adopting'
Loose Women's Lisa: 'I'd consider adopting' (Image credit: PA)

Loose Women panellist Lisa Maxwell says she's considering expanding her family by adopting. The former Bill actress, 48, who played DI Sam Nixon in the police drama until 2009, says she would have liked to have had more children. Mother-of-one Lisa, who suffered two unexplained miscarriages while working on The Bill, said: "I have a wonderful daughter, but part of me regrets not being able to share and give love to more children." The actress, who proposed to her partner, sculptor Paul Jessup, on 29 February, said: "Paul and I have talked about adoption, although we haven't come to any decision." Lisa, whose daughter Beau is 12, said she hasn't been tempted back into any acting roles. "I have so much - a brilliant family and work that I absolutely love on Loose Women," she said. "I miss acting, of course, but for the time being the right role hasn't come along and I don't want anything which would take me away from the family while Beau is so young." Lisa, a former smoker, is endorsing the Don't Go Cold Turkey campaign, which aims to help smokers who want to quit see what options are available to them.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.