TV legend ‘very happy’ as she confirms new relationship after split

Former Coronation Street prima Wendi Peters has shared her joyousness astatine uncovering emotion again pursuing the breakdown of her marriage. 

The actress, who is champion known for her relation arsenic Cilla Battersby-Brown connected the ITV soap, split from hubby Kenny Linden successful 2023 aft 30 years of marriage. 

Wendi is present successful a narration with carpet showroom brag Gareth Wale, aft gathering 14 months agone erstwhile her friends persuaded her to motion up to a dating app. 

The 56-year-old prima opened up astir her caller romance successful an interrogation with The Sun, admitting she loves however having thing successful communal career-wise gives them ‘so overmuch much scope for conversation’. 

She said: ‘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?”’

Wendi said they person been ‘really blessed ever since’ and admitted that moving unneurotic is ‘certainly thing we mightiness consider’.

‘I was joined a agelong time, and I mean, ne'er accidental ne'er to doing it again. At the moment, though, I conscionable don’t truly spot the need,’ she said. 

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

Wendi and Gareth went nationalist with their caller relationship backmost successful May, arsenic she shared a loved-up drawback connected Instagram 

It was archetypal reported she’d divided from hubby Kenny successful April 2023.

Wendi played the relation of Cilla successful Coronation Street betwixt 2003 and 2007, earlier returning for a six-week stint successful 2014. 

More recently, she swapped Weatherfield for Letherbridge erstwhile she joined the formed of now-defunct BBC daytime soap Doctors.

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