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Vivian Nicholson

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
April 02 1936
Died
1010 04 20152015
Vivian Nicholson was a British woman who lived in extreme poverty who became famous when she told the media she would "spend, spend, spend" after her husband Keith won £152,319 on the football pools in 1961. Nicholson became the subject of tabloid news stories for many years due to her and Keith's subsequent rapid spending of their fortune and her later chaotic life.

After her husband Keith died in a car accident, Viv Nicholson's fortune rapidly dwindled to nothing: Banks and tax creditors deemed her bankrupt, and declared that all the money, and everything she had acquired with it, belonged not to her but to Keith's estate.

In 1968, Nicholson won a three-year legal battle to gain £34,000 from her husband's estate, but rapidly lost it all through more uncontrolled spending, as well as taxes, legal fees, unpaid bills, and bad investments.

In 1970, she relocated to Malta, but the following year, after she was arrested for assaulting a policeman, the Maltese authorities deported her, and she returned to Britain. She also remarried, but the marriage did not last. Her new husband, Brian Wright, later died in a car crash. She entered a mental home to escape from her next husband, a man named Graham Ellison, who abused her during the four days they lived together; the marriage lasted 13 weeks. Her fifth and last husband, Gary Shaw, died of a drug overdose.

Her alcoholism became serious during her wealthy years, but continued for many years after she lost all her money. She eventually became sober.

She made many attempts to regain both her public profile and her lost wealth, such as recording a song and appearing in a strip club singing "Big Spender". None of these efforts proved successful. After opening a short-lived boutique, she ended up penniless. and by 1976, claimed that she could not even afford to bury her fourth husband when he died.

In 1978, Nicholson co-wrote an autobiography with Stephen Smith, titled <>Spend, Spend, Spend which was dramatised for the BBC's Play for Today series by Jack Rosenthal. Spend, Spend, Spend was directed by John Goldschmidt and stars Susan Littler and John Duttine.

Nicholson died at Pinderfields hospital, Wakefield, aged 79, on 11 April 2015, after having a stroke and suffering from dementia. In the years she had become a pop culture icona.

Vivian Nicholson

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
April 02 1936
Died
1010 04 20152015
Vivian Nicholson was a British woman who lived in extreme poverty who became famous when she told the media she would "spend, spend, spend" after her husband Keith won £152,319 on the football pools in 1961. Nicholson became the subject of tabloid news stories for many years due to her and Keith's subsequent rapid spending of their fortune and her later chaotic life.

After her husband Keith died in a car accident, Viv Nicholson's fortune rapidly dwindled to nothing: Banks and tax creditors deemed her bankrupt, and declared that all the money, and everything she had acquired with it, belonged not to her but to Keith's estate.

In 1968, Nicholson won a three-year legal battle to gain £34,000 from her husband's estate, but rapidly lost it all through more uncontrolled spending, as well as taxes, legal fees, unpaid bills, and bad investments.

In 1970, she relocated to Malta, but the following year, after she was arrested for assaulting a policeman, the Maltese authorities deported her, and she returned to Britain. She also remarried, but the marriage did not last. Her new husband, Brian Wright, later died in a car crash. She entered a mental home to escape from her next husband, a man named Graham Ellison, who abused her during the four days they lived together; the marriage lasted 13 weeks. Her fifth and last husband, Gary Shaw, died of a drug overdose.

Her alcoholism became serious during her wealthy years, but continued for many years after she lost all her money. She eventually became sober.

She made many attempts to regain both her public profile and her lost wealth, such as recording a song and appearing in a strip club singing "Big Spender". None of these efforts proved successful. After opening a short-lived boutique, she ended up penniless. and by 1976, claimed that she could not even afford to bury her fourth husband when he died.

In 1978, Nicholson co-wrote an autobiography with Stephen Smith, titled <>Spend, Spend, Spend which was dramatised for the BBC's Play for Today series by Jack Rosenthal. Spend, Spend, Spend was directed by John Goldschmidt and stars Susan Littler and John Duttine.

Nicholson died at Pinderfields hospital, Wakefield, aged 79, on 11 April 2015, after having a stroke and suffering from dementia. In the years she had become a pop culture icona.

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