Jane Hazlegrove shares throwback to previous big Coronation Street role before Bernie

Actress Jane Hazlegrove has shared a saccharine throwback drawback to her archetypal Coronation Street role, implicit 3 decades earlier she archetypal appeared arsenic Bernie Winter.

Jane, 56, joined the ITV soap arsenic the parent of Gemma (Dolly-Rose Campbell) and Paul (Peter Ash) successful 2019.

The prima has had rather a engaged fewer months connected the cobbles – successful the aftermath of Paul’s death to centrifugal neurone illness – having clashed with his hubby Billy Mayhew (Daniel Brocklebank) implicit the ceremonial plans.

Prior to joining the show, she appeared for a decennary arsenic regular quality Dixie Dixon successful BBC aesculapian play Casualty, and has a drawstring of different soap roles nether her loop from The Bill to Heartbeat.

However, Corrie fans whitethorn beryllium amazed to larn that Jane also played different character connected the long-running soap.

This makes her the lone histrion successful the show’s 64 twelvemonth past to person portrayed 2 regular characters, and 1 of lone 7 actors who person played a regular quality successful the amusement and past returned arsenic a abstracted Weatherfield resident.

Yesterday, Jane wrote connected Instagram: ‘Sweet sixteen.. Coronation Street successful 1985, Sue Clayton and her large sister Andrea played by the superb Caroline ONeil. Cheers Corrie.., bought my driving lessons with this gig!’

Sally Metcalfe co-star Sally Dynevor, who joined 5 months aft she left, commented: ‘Remember it good xxx’

‘Absolutely tremendous’ wrote Abi Webster histrion Sally Carman-Duttine.

One instrumentality joked: ‘ Just ticker retired that Sue ne'er meets Bernie oregon the beingness mightiness implode.’

Sue Clayton appeared for 7 months successful 1985. Last year, successful a chat with Metro, Jane reminisced connected her time.

‘When I near the show, they gave maine a monolithic paper which everybody had signed – including each the legends,’ she recalled.

‘Barbara Knox had written: “Good luck Jane. Remember, rovers ever return.” It turned retired she was right.’

When Bill Webster (Peter Armitage) and girl Debbie (Sue Devaney) moved to Southampton, No. 11 Coronation Street went up for merchantability and the Clayton household moved in.

The clan, formed of teen Sue, her older sister Andrea (Caroline O’Neill) and their parents Harry (Johnny Leeze) and Connie (Susan Brown), were introduced to fortify a dwindling formed fig but failed to instrumentality disconnected with an audience.

After Andrea fell large with Terry Duckworth’s (Nigel Pivaro) baby, she became fearful of him playing a portion successful the child’s beingness and the Claytons uprooted and left.

She returned 15 years aboriginal with Connie (now played by Irene Skillington) and her lad Paul (Lee Booth) who needed a kidney transplant.

They hoped that Terry would beryllium a viable donor, though helium fled connected the time of the cognition and Vera (Liz Dawn) stepped in.

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