Actress Kimberly Hart-Simpson will soon be back on our screens as Nicky Wheatley in Coronation Street.
20.01.2022 - 12:22 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Katie McGlynn has revisited her heartbreaking Coronation Street scenes to deliver an important message to fans.
The actress, who starred as Sinead Osbourne - nee Tinker - on the ITV soap, took to Instagram with a series of pictures from nearer the end of her time on the programme.
The pictures also featured co-star Rob Mallard, who played on-screen husband Daniel Osbourne.
It showed Katie portraying Sinead's cervical cancer battle, which she only discovered once falling pregnant with the couple's son, Bertie.
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Katie, 28, won high praise for her portrayal, scooping the National Television Award for best serial drama performance in 2020, after her character died in the soap in 2019.
The soap star also became a patron for Mummy's Star, a charity that s dedicated to women and their families diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy or within 12 months of giving birth.
And despite now starring in Hollyoaks, Katie hasn't forgotten about her former character.
"ONE in every THREE people don’t go for their cervical screening… this number is staggering and needs to change now," she wrote on Instagram alongside the stills from her emotional Corrie scenes.
"Yes, I am banging my drum again! It’s #CervicalCancerPreventionWeek and as most of you will probably know, my character Sinead Tinker passed away from cervical cancer on @coronationstreet and it was a storyline which played out over two years and one which reignited the Jade Goody effect for many people around the country…
"To this day I still receive messages saying that Sinead’s storyline saved their lives, they went for a smear and found cancerous cells etc…
"There are a few
Actress Kimberly Hart-Simpson will soon be back on our screens as Nicky Wheatley in Coronation Street.
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