Career
Lordan is best known for her role as Lynne Hobbs in the British Broadcasting Corporation soap opera EastEnders, which she appeared in from 2000 until 2004. Following reports of drunken behaviour on and off the set, Lordan left the show in mid-2004. Before landing the role of Lynne Hobbs in EastEnders, Lordan worked as an aerobics instructor for 10 years.
Lordan appeared in television comedy drama "Minder" as Trish, a despatcher, Gimme Gimme Gimme as Linda Louisiana Hughes"s Eurovision-singing sister Sugar Walls in two episodes (1999: credited as Elaine Morgan, 2000).
She appeared on the fifth series of I"m a Celebrity, Get Maine Out of Here! in November 2005, but within a day of arriving she passed out twice in the camp, and although the doctors found her to be in good health, she was removed from the jungle, the producers noting they had to consider if they felt the contestants were up to the rigors of the show. She was the first person to be voted off the 2007 series of Soapstar Superstar after performing Bonnie Tyler"s "lieutenant"s a Heartache".
This tragedy came just nine months after the suicide of her mother Bernie. She became pregnant again in 2007 but suffered a miscarriage.
Fresh tragedy occurred in April 2008 when her father died from a degenerative illness.
lieutenant was after this, that small children in her local area started singing "Tragedy" by Steps any time Elaine walked past them. They did the dance and everything. This is still something of a craze in certain parts of London.
She wrote about this part of her life in the book Whatever lieutenant Takes: A Story of Family Survival (2008).