Coronation Street's Sally Ann Matthews discussed hot pots when the Queen visited the set last year.
The actress joined Lorraine to discuss being a permanent fixture on the show for over 30 years. Arriving on the cobbles in her teens, her character, Jenny Bradley, has been at the centre of engagement, torment and harrowing death storylines whilst somehow remaining unscathed through it all.
She and Lorraine discussed her career but gave special mention to when the Queen arrived at the Rovers for a visit. Last year her majesty visited Coronation Street to mark the show's 60th anniversary and once before in 1982 before the soap moved to Trafford in 2013.
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Sharing her time with the Queen, Sally admitted they enjoyed a rather unusual line of conversation. She said: "We were still operating under covid restrictions so we were all at two metres.
"It was phenomenal and she had the sparkliest, smiley eyes you've ever seen and I chatted to her about take-away hot pot. She was so engaged and for someone who's met everybody and does three or four engagements in a day she listened to everybody and you could see she was taking it all in."
She added: "We were all in the Rovers practising our curtsey."
Ken Barlow actor Bill Roache was also on set that day and said the Queen made you feel like you were the "only person in her life". Appearing on This Morning, he said: "What was so lovely about her was this readiness to smile, and you felt she wanted to laugh, and had a beautiful laugh".
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