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Sacked Coronation Street actress lands new soap role

A sacked Coronation Street actor has resurrected their career in another soap.

There was a time when it seemed that Katie Radford had cost her a chance of landing a big role, but her fortunes have now reversed.

When she was 25, she looked to have landed the role of Bethany Platt in Corrie.

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The problem was that the ITV soap bosses thought she was 19, and she was playing a character who was 14.

So, Katie was promptly sacked for lying about her age, before she’d even had a chance to get in front of the camera.

Lucy Fallon was then cast in the role of Bethany, and hasn’t looked back since.

Katie seemed destined to the acting scrapheap.

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