When I read the script I thought it was so much fun, and it?s the best soap in the country

I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.

In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.

Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.