Coronation Street's Sally Dynevor is a proud mum as her daughter Hattie starts at a new job today.
12.08.2023 - 07:01 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Leanne Battersby may be having a quiet time on the cobbles of late, but she has faced her fair share of drama over the years. The character arrived to the cobbles in 1997 when it was announced the 'family from hell' was to be introduced to the ITV soap to draw up some trouble on the famous street.
Leanne, played by Jane Danson, made her arrival alongside her father Les, step-mum Janice and step-sister Toyah. But Jane left the cobbles in 2000 not long after the harrowing storyline that saw her character become a drug addict. She returned again in 2004, where she went on to marry Peter Barlow and then Nick Tilsley for the second time, before the couple parted again.
But she has since reunited with Nick twice more - in 2016, 2018. In more recent years, Leanne became pregnant with Steve McDonald's baby and gave birth to a son, Oliver Battersby, who tragically died in 2020 from mitochondrial disease.
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Following Oliver’s death, Leanne falls into depression, asking Nick to move out of the flat, even going as far as to tell him she’s going away to France, but instead becoming a hermit in the flat. It was Simon who confronted her, and agreed to help with the bills. It is then when he began working as a delivery man at For Your Fries Only while Leanne started calling psychic hotlines, in order to try and contact Oliver, pushing herself further into debt.
Whilst at work, Simon was pressured by his colleague Jacob Hay into delivering drugs and later got himself deeper into the murky depths of drug dealing before Leanne stepped in when drugs boss Harvey Gaskell started threatening Simon. She ended up offering to take his place but acted as
Coronation Street's Sally Dynevor is a proud mum as her daughter Hattie starts at a new job today.
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