Joanna Lumley to return to Coronation Street?

Kym Marsh, who plays Michelle Connor in Coronation Street, writes a weekly column for OK magazine. And in this week's column, she suggests bringing back Joanna Lumley to reprise her role as Ken's love interest Elaine Perkins in the show.

Now, I think this is a superb idea. And Kym writes in her OK magazine column: "Apparently Joanna Lumley would love a return to the cobbles. She played Ken Barlow’s girlfriend Elaine back in 1973. She’s an iconic actress, so it would be wonderful to have her back."

And it's something that Joanna Lovely Lumley herself has talked about not too long ago, when she was interviewed on BBC's The One Show. She talked then about how leaving Corrie was the saddest thing she's ever had to do.  You can read more on that here.

Could the time be right for her to return? Ooh, yes please make it so!

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Joanna Lumley's Coronation Street regret

We blogged a while ago here that Joanna Lumley was asked to return to Coronation Street. But when she couldn't, because of filming schedules, Corrie asked Stephanie Beacham in for the role of Ken Barlow's girlfriend, Martha.

In an interview with today's Guardian, Joanna reveals that being unable to return to Corrie as Ken's girlfriend Elaine Perkins caused her "no end of anxiety".

Let's just hope that Corrie has the good sense to ask her again, and get her in to return as Elaine in the future. Oh, she could turn out to be the mother of Ken's mystery son who's going to turn up out of the blue...

It should have been me

Joanna Lumley recently said that she'd love to walk the cobbles of Coronation Street again. Her first appearence was as Elaine Perkins, one of Ken's many girlfriends. "Ken asked me to marry him and I said no," she recalls. "I thought, 'Why can't I say yes so I can be in it for longer!'"

She also says she was up for the role of Martha Fraser. "I was nearly going to be the woman on the barge who Ken had an affair with. I begged the producers to alter the filming dates because they clashed with mine but they said Stephanie Beacham had got it."

It's probably too soon for Ken to have another fling but it would be nice to see her back all the same. What do you think?