Trivia

After the Daily Herald reported that she was to have a baby seven months after her marriage took place, she successfully sued the newspaper for libel.

In 1963 her husband Harry Claff was imprisoned for embezzlement. His defence was that he had only "borrowed" some money from the London Palladium, where he was box-office manager, and would have paid it back.

Trained as a retoucher and photographic artist.

Had 2 sons.

In July 1957, she married her second husband, Harry Claff, who was the joint general manager and box office manager at the Palladium. Claff and Regan divorced in 1963 after Claff was sentenced to prison for embezzlement of £62,000. He served five years in prison.

Her successful singing career began in 1953, when she made a demo record of "Too Young" and "I'll Walk Alone". The demo came to the attention of Bernard Delfont, and that helped her sign a recording contract with Decca Records.

She appeared on the Six-Five Special, and was given her own BBC television series, Be My Guest, which ran for four series starting in 1959.

She had rheumatic fever as a child which left her with a damaged mitral valve, although this did not cause problems until she was in her seventies.

After being knocked out by a descending safety curtain during her first appearance in variety, she developed her act to include impressions of Judy Garland, Dame Gracie Fields and Dame Anna Neagle, to the last of whom she bore a facial resemblance.

On leaving Decca in 1958, she signed with EMI's HMV label, where she had a Top 10 hit with a cover version of the McGuire Sisters' "May You Always". Two years later, she left EMI for Pye Records, and had two minor record successes, ("Happy Anniversary" and "Papa Loves Mama").

When her hits had dried up in the mid 60's she suffered a nervous breakdown. Regan married her third and last husband, Dr. Martin Cowan, a medical doctor, at Caxton Hall, London on September 12, 1966. After Dr. Cowan's retirement, they moved to Florida in 1982.

In the late 1950s, she appeared several times at the London Palladium, including the Royal Command Performance in 1955 and also in the show Stars in Your Eyes with Cliff Richard, Russ Conway and Edmund Hockridge which ran for a 6-month season at the Palladium in 1960.

In 1958, she appeared as herself in the film Hello London.

Regan married an American serviceman, Dick Howell, a friend of her brothers who met in the Navy. She and Howell married on her 18th birthday in 1946. For a time they lived in Burbank, California. They had three children, one of whom died at an early age.

She was an English traditional pop music singer, popular during the 1950s and early 1960s.

When her marriage with Dick Howell eventually broke down Regan, a Catholic, was able to obtain a legal dissolution, rather than a divorce.

She had a number of Top 40 hits for the label, many of them were cover versions of American hits. Among them were Teresa Brewer's "Ricochet", "Till I Waltz Again with You", and "Jilted", Doris Day's "If I Give My Heart to You" and Jill Corey's "Cleo and Me-O" and "Love Me to Pieces".

Beginning on November 18, 1953, she became the resident singer on BBC producer Richard Afton's television series Quite Contrary. Afton later replaced Regan with Ruby Murray as resident vocalist beginning with the show on June 23, 1954.

She sang I'll Close My Eyes in the film 6-5 Special.