Helen Worth and Les Dennis on Paul O'Grady show today

Helen Worth (Gail) and Les Dennis (Michael), who play newlyweds Mr and Mrs Rodwell on Coronation Street, will be on the Paul O'Grady show today.

The show airs on ITV1 at 5pm, today Bank Holiday Monday, 4th May.

I love Paul O'Grady interviewing Corrie actors, as he's such a fan of the show. I'm looking forward to seeing this at tea-time today!


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Watch: Samia Smith and Jennie McAlpine on the Paul O'Grady show

Samia Smith and Jennie McAlpine, who play Maria Connor and Fiz Stape, were on the Paul O'Grady show on ITV today.

They talked about the "love triangle" their characters are currently in with Tyrone.  Jennie says that the storyline gets a lot worse as Maria descends into madness over her fight with Fiz for Tyrone.

And The Renshaw Twins even get a mention too! 

They also talk about the new set, the new canteen and how much they're enjoying it there.

Watch the interview here.

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Barbara Knox to be on Paul O'Grady show

I was excited to see in my What's On TV mag that the fabulous Rita (Barbara Knox) is to appear on the Paul O'Grady show just after Corrie on ITV1 at 9pm this Friday, 5th November. See the listings in the online version here.

Apparently, "Coronation Street star Barbara Knox will talk about her time on the soap as it celebrates its 50th birthday".

I don't think I've ever seen an interview with "Rita", so I can't wait. I'm sure Paul O'Grady will be thrilled as well, as I believe he is a big Corrie fan. Rita is one of my all-time favourites, a true Corrie star and a proper queen of the cobbles as far as I'm concerned, and I'm not missing this one.

Corrie icons as you've never seen them before

Regular readers (hello, mum) will know I'm a huge fan of Corrie's Yana Lumb and rate her as one of Coronation Street's unsung heros. Anyway, Jayne Bickerton (nee Tunnicliffe) who played Yana has some wonderful YouTubage online now.

This one and this one are my favourites, it's Jayne as stand-up comedian Mary Unfaithful in a self-penned show for Granada from 1997 about her female Corrie role models, including Elsie Tanner, Bet Lynch, Ena Sharples and Hilda Ogden. Jayne filmed these on the Coronation Street set seven years before she got her part in Coronation Street as Yana Lumb.

Why not check out more of Jayne's work as Mary Unfaithful when she's working with Paul O'Grady as Lily Savage. There's a few YouTubes here, here, here and here and a short clip of Jayne when she was recently on the Paul O'Grady show with her Burlesque art work t'other week.

See Corrie's Yana Lumb on Paul O'Grady show today

Jayne Tunnicliffe, better known as Coronation Street's Yana Lumb, will be appearing on the Paul O'Grady show today at 5pm on Channel 4.

Jayne will be talking about her fab artwork which has included Corrie pop art icons and now she's painting burlesque. Read more about it right here.