Cheryl Cole joins Coronation Street for ITV's Text Santa

Cheryl Cole has filmed a special scene in Coronation Street to be aired as part of Text Santa.

Text Santa will be shown on Friday 20 December at 8pm on ITV and will also feature lead singer of The Pogues', Shane McGowan although he probably won't be singing this version of Fairytale of Weatherfield.


Follow Coronation Street Blog on Twitter @CoroStreetBlog and Facebook: CoronationStreetBlog


All original work on the Coronation Street Blog is covered by a Creative Commons License

Pics: Michelle Keegan poses as Cheryl Cole

Michelle Keegan, who plays Coronation Street's Tina McIntyre, has done a photoshoot for Heat magazine, posing as Cheryl Cole.  

There are pictures in The Sun today if that's the sort of thing you like.

Ho-hum. I wish young women would find a role model who hadn't been convicted of assault, as Cheryl Cole was.

Follow the Coronation Street Blog on Twitter and Facebook

Snoop Dogg and Cheryl Cole on Corrie? We say No, No, No

Take a celebrity desperate for attention, give them the name of the world's longest running soap opera and get them to name drop it as often as possible into every interview they do. The tabloids pick the interview up, the story does the rounds on t'internet and this fan's heart drops to the floor once again.

It isn't the first time Snoop Dogg has been mentioned wanting a role in Coronation Street. 

He wants to do open his own Rovers Return in LA.

He wants to appear on Corrie

He wants a Corrie cameo

And now he tells The Daily Star he's heard Cheryl Cole talking about wanting to join Corrie and says he wants to appear on Corrie with Cheryl as his wife.

The rapper is an ex-pimp, and he also has a string of criminal convictions and has been tried for murder, tells today's Star: “People always think I’m playing when I talk about Coronation Street, but I swear it’s my favourite show on TV. They got everything – sex, murder, transsexuals. There ain’t no other show that can touch it. If the producers write a cool storyline for me and Cheryl I guarantee I will clear my schedule and come do a two-week shoot. The writers are sick on Corrie. I want to see me and Cheryl arrive on the Street as a couple from overseas. Within the first week I would expect Ken Barlow to have seduced Cheryl because you know that dog don’t let his age stop his skills with the women. Then a broken-hearted Snoop falls into the arms of a broken-hearted Deirdre.”

Please, no, never let it happen. And if by some freak of nature it should and we're told by Phil Collinson that this hapless hopeless gruseome twosome will be "the new Jack and Vera" then I'm giving up and turning over to 'Stenders.

Follow the Coronation Street Blog on Twitter and Facebook

Who wants Cheryl Cole and Kim Kardashian in Corrie, anyway?

Flat earth news spreads from one awful website to another this week, but stops right here. Got it? 

Rumours have been flying around th'internet this week that Cheryl Cole (reality TV singer, reality TV judge, convicted of assault) and Kim Kardashian (I have no idea who this is) both want a role on Coronation Street. 

No, they don't. 

It's more likely that a bored publicist put something on a twitter or similar mentioning their "star's" name in connection with a high profile television programme, in this case it's Coronation Street, and hope that the story will do the rounds and finally come true. Well it won't. So there.

Follow the Coronation Street Blog on Twitter and Facebook