Coronation Street legend shares how ITV soap almost had a different name

Coronation Street won the Best Soap & Continuing Drama gong at the 2022 BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday 8 May.The ITV soap went up against Casualty, Emmerdale and Holby City in the coveted category. Corrie stars Sally Dynevor and Charlie de Melo, who play Sally Metcalfe and Imran Habeeb on the ITV soap, took to the stage to accept the gong. During the winner's speech, Sally paid tribute to campaigner Sylvia Lancaster following her passing last month.

Coronation Street's Sally Dynevor and Charlie de Melo looked glamorous ahead of the BAFTA ceremony on Sunday evening, where Corrie received a nomination for Best Soap. Sally, 58, and Charlie, 32, posed for an adorable photo on the official Corrie Instagram ahead of the ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

ITV has produced two of the biggest weekly soap shows on TV - Coronation Street and Emmerdale. While the main appeal of these shows' characters is the dynamic twist and turns of their daily lives, many fans may be surprised that a lot of actors who spent time in the limelight decided to give up fame and work normal day jobs. Many of these actors are now happy with the careers they have chosen while others had little choice but to abandon acting as the work dried up, Birmingham Live reports.

Coronation Street stars looked worlds away from their characters over the weekend as they attended the ITV soap's belated Christmas celebration, which was renamed to Spring party. Taking to Instagram, the likes of Elle Mulvaney, Harriet Bibby, Millie Gibson, Tanisha Gorey and Samia Longchambon shared a collection of glamorous snaps from the fun celebration.

It might be a very sunny April, but Coronation Street stars were finally able to celebrate Christmas at a huge festive party in Manchester. And it was a very familiar location for the knees up for Corrie's cast and crew on Friday night.

Former Emmerdale actress Gemma Oaten has revealed she almost died after being rushed to hospital with kidney distress.The 37-year-old was suffering from Covid when her health took a turn for the worse on April 19. Days later she was diagnosed with milk-alkali syndrome, which can be caused by the excessive intake of calcium or the supplement calcium carbonate, which causes heightened levels in the patient's blood, making its balance become more alkaline. Recovering at her home in London alone, Gemma explained in a lengthy Instagram post how she was feeling about her shock diagnosis and how it has made her reevaluate her life.

Coronation Street 's Jude Riordan celebrated his famous director dad's birthday on Tuesday as he shared an adorable snap. The talented youngster, who plays Sam Blakeman on the ITV cobbles and stars as Tyler Croft on Brassic, took to Twitter to post the sweet father-and-son snap.

Coronation Street will air heartbreaking scenes with Faye Windass after fans had concerns over her health. The 20-year-old character recently thought she was expecting boyfriend Craig Tinker's baby and after a miscarriage scare she was devastated to find out she had never been pregnant.

Nicky Wheatley has watched her fresh start crumble around her as her sex worker past comes back to haunt her in Coronation Street. The character, played by Kimberly Hart-Simpson, returned to Weatherfield this year as she applied for a job as a teaching assistant at Weatherfield High.

Coronation Street fans have predicted a new Jacob Hay twist and it involves a past character on the ITV soap. Only recently, Jacob, who is dating Amy Barlow on the cobbles, has been working hard to reform his bad boy image.

Coronation Street icon Bill Roache has celebrated his 90th birthday today. Bill is renowned for being the longest-running soap actor, playing Ken Barlow on the ITV show since it first began in December 1960. In order to mark the impressive milestone, his family have released new portraits of the 90 year old taken by his son Will at their family home in Cheshire.

Coronation Street has been flooded with messages about its legendary star as he marks his 90th birthday. William Roache, who has played Barlow patriarch Ken since the very first episode of the ITV soap, is celebrating the big milestone on Monday (April 25).

Katie McGlynn and Rob Mallard have sent Coronation Street fans into a frenzy as they enjoyed a fun-filled reunion.The pair played on-screen couple Sinead and Daniel Osbourne on the popular soap opera, but were sadly ripped apart when Katie's character passed away following a battle with cervical cancer back in 2019. Katie, who recently revealed she received death threats after her "extreme" Hollyoaks role, and Rob have now reunited as they enjoyed an Easter trip abroad in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, alongside their fellow soap star Lisa George, who plays Sinead's auntie Beth Sutherland.The trio each took to their Instagram feeds to share the photo evidence of their fun time together as one snap showed Katie, 28, posing in a black crop top with a leather jack and high-rise ripped jeans.

He spent a fair bit of time being one of Coronation Street's hated characters but Corey Brent is back - sort of - as the actor who played him, Maximus Evans, reunited with some of his former co-stars.

Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan was left totally heartbroken as she revealed her beloved Nanna had died.The 31 year old star shared the sad news on her Instagram page as she included a series of sweet photographs of them together over the years. Paying tribute to her family member in an emotional caption, the star, who revealed all three of her children had had scarlet fever during an interview earlier this month, wrote: "I loved and love my Nanna so much. "She was an amazing lady and I am proud to be Nancy’s granddaughter.

William "Bill" Roache admitted he "fancied" the Queen and grew fonder and fonder of the 95 year old monarch every time he met her. The Coronation Street actor, who celebrates his 90th birthday this month and was named in the New Year's Honours list, has met Her Majesty an incredible eight times. And from their very first meeting, the Ken Barlow icon was attracted to her.