Former Coronation Street star Sue Jenkins has opened up about her relationship with Julie Goodyear, who recently issued a statement explaining she had been diagnosed with dementia
While it may not be a very long list, it is certainly a distinguished one. Being a Corrie barmaid means you become part of the national consciousness, something former soap star Sue Jenkins knows all too well.
“It’s a big thing to go behind the bar in the Rovers,” she says. “I only went in for two episodes and ended up staying for nearly four years.”
Her time as Gloria Todd, working in the Rovers Return in the mid to late 80s, saw her pulling pints alongside two of the legends of the cast, Julie Goodyear and Betty Driver.
Memorably she was Bet Lynch’s bridesmaid when she married Alec Gilroy and she is clearly still very fond of her former co-stars, which is why the news earlier this year that 81-year-old Julie had been diagnosed with dementia came as a shock.