At the age of seventeen Caine married a local butcher's boy and became in her own words "just another starry-eyed wannabe.. married with two babies, an ex-beauty queen, stuck on a council estate, with little hope of fulfilling any dreams for a better life."[REF] .
At nineteen, and unable to pay the £19 cost of her mother's funeral expenses, she auditioned as Lynne Stringer (her married name) at the Chapeltown Working Men's Club outside Sheffield [REF].