Who is Coronation Street's Kate Ford? The Tracy Barlow actress' life away from the hit soap

in Corrie, was praised by her co-stars for speaking out.Kate Ford, who plays Tracy Barlow in the show, told her: "Love to you my friend. I’m so glad that we can talk so openly to each other.

If it feels like Shobna Gulati has been less visible on TV lately, despite a recent stint in Doctor Who, it’s because she’s been busy with theatre work for three years.The former Coronation Street favourite also nursed her mother Asha through dementia from 2016 to last November, when she died aged 79. Now, Shobna’s written a deeply personal memoir about her life and her mother’s illness.

Carla Connor first arrived to live on the cobbles in 2006. Since then her life has been marred with some very hard-hitting storylines, including a struggle with alcoholism, a mental breakdown and of course a horrible sexual assault.

Kate Spencer arrived in Coronation Street in 2019 as Grace Vickers, the ex of Michael Bailey, and has impressed on the cobbles so far.

Kaday Kamara and Chantel Bakac became household names when they joined Gogglebox Australia earlier this year. And while she's nothing but fun on TV, Kaday is trying to overcome her fair share of adversity in her day-to-day life.

When it comes to long-running soaps like Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale, it doesn't come as a surprise that a few actors playing regular characters get swapped out over the years. Whether it's because they've been playing the role since they were a child like Ben Mitchell or Peter Beale, or an actor decides to leave the show but soap bosses still want the character like Martin Fowler's James Alexandrou.

Rickitt, 42, had been working late and drinking in a wine bar he runs - but was then called by his Good Morning Britain reporter wife Kate Fawcett to collect the meal she ordered.