The actress played Eva Price for seven years in the ITV soap
Catherine Tyldesley has teased a potential return to Coronation Street as she revealed she has been asked to go back on more than one occasion.
The actress announced she was leaving the popular ITV soap in December 2017 and her final scenes aired in August 2018, having played Eva Price for seven years.
Catherine has now told Prima magazine: “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.”
She added: “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.”
Catherine, 41, is, however, set to be reunited on screen with her former Corrie co-star, singer Shayne Ward, in Channel 5’s The Good Ship Murder, with the second series starting again this month following a Christmas special.
Shayne, who rose to fame as the winner of the second series of The X Factor and appeared on Coronation Street as Aidan Connor, plays cabaret singer-turned-detective Jack Grayling while Catherina stars as First Officer Kate Woods in the crime drama set on a cruise ship.
She told Prima of working with Shyane again: “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.
“And 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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