Coronation Street legend Wendi Peters breaks silence on new love after split with husband of 33 years

CORONATION Street fable Wendi Peters has breached her soundlessness astir uncovering emotion again aft splitting from her husband.

The actress - who played Cilla Battersby-Brown successful the ITV soap - divided with hubby Kenny Linden aft 33 years unneurotic past year.

Despite moving retired of the household location past twelvemonth aft her divided from histrion hubby Kenny, Wendi’s caller romance is going from strength-to-strengh.

The Weatherfield icon, 56, who lives successful Buckinghamshire, has been dating Leicester dada Gareth Wale, 53, for the past 14 months.

Wendi tells The Sun online: “Moving successful is surely thing we mightiness consider. 

“It's precise hard continuing a narration erstwhile you're 150 miles [round trip] distant from each other, with precise antithetic enactment hours, truthful that whitethorn beryllium thing that volition hap successful the future.

“I was joined a agelong time, and I mean, never accidental ne'er to doing it again. At the moment, though, I conscionable don’t truly spot the need.”

The brace met past year, after Wendi split from hubby Kenny and moved retired of the household home.

Wendi admits: “To beryllium with idiosyncratic for 33 years and past to abruptly person to deliberation astir dating was a spot scary but my friends, my girlfriends, persuaded maine to spell online, eventually.

“Gareth popped up and we've been truly blessed since.

“We’d been chatting online for a portion erstwhile helium asked what I did. I said, ‘oh, good I’m an actress.’

“He said, ‘oh, what kind? Amateur, theatre, TV? I said I was successful Coronation Street. Then determination was a spread of astir an hr earlier helium emailed maine back. Obviously, he’d been Googling!

“He said, ‘You’re a star. What are you doing talking to a carpet showroom fitter from Leicester?’.”

Revealing a spot much astir Gareth, Wendi gushed: “Gareth has his business - his ain carpet showroom.

“I emotion that helium doesn't truly cognize astir the [acting] business, and is starting to recognize it a small bit. 

“The information that we have, successful that respect, thing successful communal gives america truthful overmuch much scope for conversation.”

Wendi, who has girl Gracie, 24, with her ex-husband besides admits: “I conjecture the quality present is that we some person children who are grown-up. We evidently emotion them but they're not determination connected a day-to-day ground immoderate more, truthful we tin absorption connected the 2 of us. 

“We walk arsenic overmuch clip arsenic we tin with each different and we’ll conscionable spot wherever it goes but I’m precise happy.” 

“We’ve done rather a batch of traveling together, which is alternatively nice.”

When Wendi played Mother Superior successful a touring signifier mentation of Sister Act for 4 months earlier this year, Gareth besides made the effort to travel and spot her. 

She jokes: “He was a spot of a groupie connected the Sister Act circuit due to the fact that helium has radical moving for him truthful helium managed to get a fewer Mondays and Tuesdays disconnected wherever helium could get distant and travel to the venue I was astatine and enactment for a mates of nights. It was romanticist and beauteous of him. So we managed to marque it work.”

Over the summer Wendi posted a loved-up representation of the brace of them astatine a Richard Ashcroft gig.

At Easter, the mates enjoyed a romanticist travel to The Cotswolds, with Wendi sharing a bid of loved-up pictures connected her Instagram. They’ve besides antecedently holidayed successful Crete, Greece.

Now the brace program to bask an aboriginal Christmas solemnisation - to acceptable astir a caller pantomime role Wendi is playing in Greater Manchester.

The actress, who was besides a 2009 Celebrity Masterchef finalist, is appearing as the evil fairy Carabosse successful Sleeping Beauty, astatine The Stockport Plaza - thing she hopes volition seizure the imaginativeness of kids from an aboriginal age. 

She says: “I've got a time disconnected the week earlier Christmas, truthful I'm going down to Leicester then, and we'll person Christmas down determination then. Then we'll beryllium with our families connected Christmas Day. It’s my dad’s day connected Christmas Day truthful I ever effort to beryllium with mum and dada for Christmas itself.” 

To watch Wendi in Panto astatine Stockport Plaza, spell to https://stockportplaza.co.uk/whats-on/sleeping-beauty/