Actress Jane Hazlegrove has shared a candy throwback snap to her first Coronation Avenue position, over three a long time earlier than she first appeared as Bernie Winter.
Jane, 56, joined the ITV cleaning soap because the mom of Gemma (Dolly-Rose Campbell) and Paul (Peter Ash) in 2019.
The star has had fairly a busy few months on the cobbles – within the wake of Paul’s loss of life to motor neurone illness – having clashed along with his husband Billy Mayhew (Daniel Brocklebank) over the funeral plans.
Previous to becoming a member of the present, she appeared for a decade as common character Dixie Dixon in BBC medical drama Casualty, and has a string of different cleaning soap roles underneath her belt from The Invoice to Heartbeat.
Nonetheless, Corrie followers could also be stunned to study that Jane additionally performed one other character on the long-running cleaning soap.
This makes her the one actor within the present’s 64 12 months historical past to have portrayed two common characters, and certainly one of solely seven actors who’ve performed an everyday character within the present after which returned as a separate Weatherfield resident.
Yesterday, Jane wrote on Instagram: ‘Candy sixteen.. Coronation Avenue in 1985, Sue Clayton and her huge sister Andrea performed by the good Caroline ONeil. Cheers Corrie.., purchased my driving classes with this gig!’
Sally Metcalfe co-star Sally Dynevor, who joined 5 months after she left, commented: ‘Keep in mind it properly xxx’
‘Completely large’ wrote Abi Webster actress Sally Carman-Duttine.
One fan joked: ‘ Simply be careful that Sue by no means meets Bernie or the universe would possibly implode.’
Sue Clayton appeared for seven months in 1985. Final 12 months, in a chat with Metro, Jane reminisced on her time.
‘Once I left the present, they gave me a large card which everyone had signed – together with all of the legends,’ she recalled.
‘Barbara Knox had written: “Good luck Jane. Keep in mind, rovers all the time return.” It turned out she was proper.’
When Invoice Webster (Peter Armitage) and daughter Debbie (Sue Devaney) moved to Southampton, No. 11 Coronation Avenue went up on the market and the Clayton household moved in.
The clan, fashioned of teenager Sue, her older sister Andrea (Caroline O’Neill) and their mother and father Harry (Johnny Leeze) and Connie (Susan Brown), have been launched to strengthen a dwindling forged quantity however did not take off with an viewers.
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After Andrea fell pregnant with Terry Duckworth’s (Nigel Pivaro) child, she grew to become petrified of him enjoying an element within the little one’s life and the Claytons uprooted and left.
She returned 15 years later with Connie (now performed by Irene Skillington) and her son Paul (Lee Sales space) who wanted a kidney transplant.
They hoped that Terry could be a viable donor, although he fled on the day of the operation and Vera (Liz Daybreak) stepped in.
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