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And Catherine Tyldesley on being “Mr Bean with boobs!”

As fans of Coronation Street will probably know, four of the show’s stars, Sue Cleaver, Ryan Thomas, Brooke Vincent and Ben Price, recently jetted off to Africa to film the moving documentary, Corrie Goes To Kenya.

We’ll see the first part of the special film on Friday at 9pm on ITV1, and ahead of it, the actors have all revealed what a huge impact filming in the poverty stricken slum areas of Kenya had on them.

Sue, who plays Eileen Grimshaw, said that she’d decided to take part in the film hoping that she can help to raise awareness of the plight of some of the people she met.

She said, “To be able to make just a tiny, weeny bit of difference, I was like, ‘yes, absolutely, I’m on board’.”

And Brooke, who plays Sophie Webster, added, “I’m an emotional person and I know I’m going to want to take all of these people home with me, that’s what I’m like.”

The Corrie stars visited the biggest slum in Mombasa, Kenya’s second city, where an average of seven people live in each home, and where a poor sewerage system and lack of running water mean that cholera and dysentery are huge issues in the community… Continue reading »

Plus, Georgia May Foote talks surrogate baby plotline, and Simon Gregson talks Steve’s love life

It’s been revealed today that in the next couple of weeks, Kirsty Soames is going to give birth to a baby girl who she and delighted new dad Tyrone Dobbs will name Ruby.

However, things are set to take a sinister turn when baby Ruby proves to be a grizzly infant who can’t settle, which stresses tired mum Kirsty out, and she reacts violently…

Tyrone, who’s at work in the garage, is first alerted by the neighbours that something’s very wrong at home – they hear the baby crying and Kirsty screaming at her – so he rushes home to find Kirsty smashing the place up!

Hurriedly grabbing baby Ruby, Tyrone rushes out of the house, waiting for Kirsty to clam down before he returns. But while he’s out of the house protecting the baby, he decides that he must leave the area with her to keep her out of harm’s way at her mother’s hands…

But later, when Kirsty swears yet again that she’ll seek help, Tyrone agrees to return with the baby, but can Kirsty keep that promise, or will she hurt Ruby?

We’ll keep you posted!

In other Corrie news, but still on the subject of babies, Katy Armstrong is about to offer to have a baby for her sister Izzy – who of course recently had a miscarriage – however, as Georgia May Foote, who plays Katy, has revealed, Katy hasn’t really thought things through… Continue reading »