Jackie Collins' on Loose Women to discuss The Santangelos 9 days before death

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Jackie Collins' final, stoic TV appearance: Novelist flew from LA to London for chat show just NINE DAYS before her death, gave no indication of her suffering and even joked about her 'research' for erotic novels
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Jackie Collins was in high spirits as she appeared on women's chat show
Joked about her 'research' for erotic novels and spoke of her future plans
Author gave no indication she was terminally ill from the breast cancer that would end her life her nine days later
Breezy appearance may suggest she took a sudden turn for the worse after the 10,000-mile round trip from Beverly Hills to London

Published: 23:45 EST, 19 September 2015 | Updated: 02:05 EST, 20 September 2015

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Jackie Collins flew from Los Angeles to London to appear on Loose Women just over a week before her death - showing no sign whatsoever that she was terminally ill.

The best-selling author, who died on Saturday aged 77 after a six-year battle with breast cancer, was in high spirits and was still speaking about future plans, suggesting she may have taken a sudden turn for the worse after the 10,000-mile round trip.

Collins kept a busy schedule until her death, making her final, stoic televised appearance on the women's chat show nine days before she passed away.

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Stoic novelist Jackie Collins flew from Los Angeles to London to appear on Loose Women just over a week before her death

The best-selling author, who died on Saturday aged 77 after a six-year battle with breast cancer, was in high spirits and was still speaking about future plans

She spoke of how she enjoyed a 'proper English cup of tea' with scones on the British Airways flight to London, before heading straight to Marks & Spencer as she misses the British way of life while at her home in Beverly Hills.

Collins told the ITV show that she hoped to persuade Angelina Jolie to star in a movie adaptation of her latest novel, while also telling all about her 'research' for the sexual positions that feature in her 'bonkbuster' novels.

Despite secretly suffering from terminal cancer, Collins made the mammoth trip at the start of the month, meeting her sister Joan, 82, for dinner at Wolseley in Mayfair.

She continued to promote her novel The Santangelos at book signings and in magazine interviews before appearing on Loose Women on September 10.

She gave no indication whatsoever that she was dying, with perhaps her only sign that something was amiss being her stumbling over the word 'cancer' as she chit-chatted with the hosts.

Of course, in true Jackie Collins style, she wasn't talking about the disease, but was discussing the 1934 erotic novel Tropic of Cancer.

Collins kept a busy schedule until her death, making her final televised appearance on the women's chat show nine days before she passed away

By September 14 - five days before she died - she was back in LA for more interviews, showing Hello magazine around her mansion.

She had spoken of how she was writing another book, as well as her half-written autobiography.

'It’s called Reform School or Hollywood. One day, I’m writing that and the next I’m novel writing,' Collins said.

'One of my daughters picked it up the other day and started reading. She said, "This is like reading one of your novels," but I think that’s a good thing. You’ll have to wait and see.'

Later that day she held her final interview, with People magazine.

The 'queen of the bonkbuster' stayed active on Twitter until her final days, posting this image two days before she died

Collins (right) went for dinner at Wolseley in Mayfair, central London, with sister Joan (center) while she was visiting London

Collins (right) gave a series of interviews promoting her book in London and Los Angeles in the last weeks

This was when she revealed that she was dying of breast cancer, in details that only emerged after her death.

'Looking back, I'm not sorry about anything I did,' she said.

'I did it my way, as Frank Sinatra would say. I've written five books since the diagnosis, I've lived my life, I've travelled all over the world, I have not turned down book tours and no one has ever known until now when I feel as though I should come out with it.'

The author fought back tears as she said she would 'always be there' for her daughters, Tracy, 54, Tiffany, 48, and Rory, 46.

Up until the day before she died, Collins was chatting to fans on Facebook, writing on her Facebook page that she was excited to watch the season premiere of Nashville, which starts on September 23.

The day before she died she was still making plans, praising a fan for coming up with the idea of putting all of her novels with her famed character Lucky into one collection.

She was busy on Twitter too, posting images from her heyday suggesting she was growing sentimental as she came to terms with her illness.