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Which were your favourite storylines? Only weeks into my joining the cast, I had a ruck with Rita Sullivan who’d slapped my son, Chesney, for stealing from her shop. I got Rita banged up for a night and claimed compensation.


I’d only been there five minutes and there I was standing in the street shouting at Rita – Dame Barbara Knox, as we called her – and I almost had to pinch myself. Barbara couldn’t have been more helpful, more welcoming.


But I was just a girl from Lancashire who used to watch Corrie every Friday night with her grandma and here I was sitting on Gail Platt’s garden wall. Surreal.


After four years, you finally called it a day in 2007 I wanted to go back to doing other things like theatre and panto. Also, I was living in London at the time so I was having to travel up to Manchester a lot and I missed my little girl, Gracie, who was only four when I started playing Cilla. But luckily, they didn’t kill her off so she’s still out there somewhere.


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Do you still watch Corrie? The last time I did, it was all doom and gloom. I rather missed the fact there was no longer any comedy on the cobbles. In my opinion, they’re after a younger audience.


Would you ever go back? People always ask that and I always answer in the same way: never say never. If they came up with an irresistible storyline, I might be tempted. That said, I’m too busy at the moment. My head is full of Florence.


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