Coronation Street's Sally Ann Matthews reveals who she really wants to play in soap as they're 'husband's favourite'
05.04.2024 - 13:25
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Coronation Street star Sally Ann Matthews has revealed who she'd play on the cobbles if she wasn't playing Jenny Connor - because they're her 'husband's favourite'. The actress plays the now-Rovers Return landlady but actually became a young star of the cobbles when she joined the soap at the age of 16.
The Oldham actress was cast in 1986 as Jenny Bradley - the daughter of villain Alan Bradley who was taken in by mother figure Rita Tanner - then Rita Fairclough - while her father worked away. After five years, Sally quit the show in pursuit of other roles. She returned briefly in 1993, before making a huge comeback in 2015 when Jenny started dating Kevin Webster.
However, dealing with the loss of losing her four-year-old son Tom two years earlier when he drowned in a paddling pool, she snatched Kevin's son Jack in order to keep him safe and nearly threw herself off a balcony, resulting in her getting sectioned. She then didn't return to the street again in 2016 when Rita took pity on her but she's gone on to become a Weatherfield mainstay.
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Sally Ann was keen to chat with fans of her and the ITV soap over the Easter holiday and took to her Instagram Story with a 'type something' box as she said: "You know when you think no, not now, but do it anyway?" before she encouraged: "Go". But as the questions started to come in, Sally Ann hit a stumbling block.
She couldn’t figure out how to answer the questions and instead shared a string of images of herself and her beloved dog, the adorable border terrier Veto, as she said she had “no clue” what to do. However, Sally