You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!

When I left 'Coronation Street,' I wondered if I could ever be lucky enough to work with such a unanimously wonderful company of good people - and I've just come to that good bunch again.

I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.

We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinning plates.

I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.

It sounds so boring - and my brothers tease, 'Oh poor you, pulling pretend pints all day' - but it's very, very long hours, and you're knackered when you get home.