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15.05.2022 - 13:21 / ok.co.uk
Coronation Street star Melanie Hill has revealed she is going to leave the cobbles behind after playing the character of Cathy Matthews for the past seven years. Melanie, 60, first joined the Corrie cast in 2015 and has since become a regular and spent much time behind the counter of the Kabin. Deciding to say goodbye to the much-loved soap, she has revealed Covid has played a big part in her decision.
“It’s not been an easy thing to decide. My family has been important but the pandemic has made a lot of people think about the future,” she told The Mirror. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter The actress went on: “It has changed a lot of things in my head.
You’ve just got to see what’s important to you. “I absolutely love everybody but it’s made me think about my family a lot and what the priorities are in my life.” Melanie is a familiar face to TV fans and has starred in various hit shows including playing the role of Maggie Croft in Waterloo Road and she played the role of iconic star 'Big Cilla' in drama biopic Cilla as well as starring in the recent BBC drama The Syndicate. One of her early roles was in the 1980s sitcom Bread where she played the only daughter in the family, loveable Aveline Boswell from 1989 to 1991.
Following having to take time out to look after her 88 year old mum in Sunderland recently, Melanie has made the decision to quit the soap and pursue more roles such as The Syndicate, which will give her more time for her family between jobs. She told the publication: “I’ve been at my mum’s for two weeks and what’s nice is I’ve got the freedom to do that because soaps are pretty relentless. You never stop, really, and you’re always
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Fear The Walking Dead‘s Alycia Debnam-Carey has exited the show after seven seasons.A mainstay of the cast as Alicia Clark since the Walking Dead spin-off began in 2015, the actress made her final appearance in this weekend’s (May 29) episode Amina.During the events, Clark managed to avoid being turned into a walker after surviving a fever, and set off on a new mission after making amends with Victor Strand (Colman Domingo).Posting on her Instagram account after her departure, Debnam-Carey said it “marks the end of an extraordinary and life changing journey of playing Alicia Clark”.A post shared by Alycia Debnam-Carey (@alyciajasmin)“Where to begin… I will never be able to fully express the kind of journey I have had working on @feartwd for so long. It has gifted me so much,” she wrote.“It has been the most extraordinary training ground as an actor where I’ve been given the chance to grow and learn.
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Melanie Hill has quit Coronation Street to spend more time with her family after spending seven years playing Cathy Matthews.
Coronation Street favourite Melanie Hill has quit the soap after seven years of playing Cathy Matthews. The actress, whose character arrived in Weatherfield in 2015 as a love interest for café worker Roy Cropper, is leaving the show to spend more time with her family.
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