Cilla Black special edition of "Coronation Street". In 2014, Black was the subject of a three-part television drama series, "Cilla", focusing especially on her rise to fame in 1960s Liverpool and her relationship with Bobby Willis. ITV aired the first instalment on 15 September 2014, starring BAFTA award-winning actress Sheridan Smith. Black was married to her manager, Bobby Willis, for 30 years from 1969 until he died from lung cancer on 23 October 1999. They had three sons: Robert (born 1970, who became her manager), Ben (born 1974) and Jack (born 1980). Their daughter, Ellen (born 1975), was born prematurely and suffered
Sonya Walger Walger is conversational in French and fluent in Spanish, as her father is Argentinian. Walger began her career on British television. In 1998, she guest starred in an episode of ITV crime series, "Midsomer Murders". She had the recurring role in the BBC 1 sitcom "Goodnight Sweetheart" in 1999, and appeared in two episodes of the crime/drama "The Vice". Also in 1999, she played the daughter of newspaper magnate Max Van der Vuurst, Hilde, in the "Heat of the Sun" story "The Sport of Kings". The following year, Walger made her film debut in the biographical drama "Eisenstein". In 2001,