CATHERINE Tyldesley has revealed all on future Coronation Street return after bosses asked her back multiple times.
The 41-year-old actress played Eva Price in the ITV soap from 2011 to 2018 and had a host of dramatic storylines during that time.
Since leaving Coronation Street, Catherine has gone on to star in BBC One series Scarborough and Channel 5 drama The Good Ship Murder, as well as compete on the 2019 series of Strictly Come Dancing.
But in a new interview with Prima Magazine, Catherine has admitted she isn’t against returning to Weatherfield if the right situation occurred.
She said: “Coronation Street feels like forever ago, but I always look back with such great fondness.
“They’ve asked me to go back a couple of times over the years, and it just so happened that I was busy with other projects.
“But if they approached me with an amazing storyline and the time was right, of course, I’d go back. So it’s always a case of never say never.”
But for now, Catherine is happy to be working with her former Corrie co-star Shayne Ward on The Good Ship Murder.
Catherine plays First Officer Kate Woods, while Shayne portrays former police detective Jack Grayling.
The cast film the series on a real life cruise ship and Catherine has opened up about how fun and chaotic it is.
She said: “We’re like the naughty kids at school who shouldn’t be sat together!
“It makes life so much easier because we’ve got that relationship, which gives us good chemistry.”
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She added: “He kept me sane during season one, because I’d just had a baby, and his other half had also just had a baby, and so we kind of propped each other up emotionally while we were both missing the kids.
“He’s seen me cry a million times. So I thought, ‘It’s fine, I can be a hormonal mess around Shayne.’
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