Bill Roache, who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has paid tribute to late co-star Anne Kirkbride on the five year anniversary of her death.
Anne played Bill’s on-screen wife Deirdre in the soap for decades before dying of breast cancer in 2015.
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Now Bill has remembered his late friend in a new interview.
He told the Mirror: “You were never short of a laugh with Annie and that’s what we remember about her most.
“But I really loved her and she loved me, in a really good sense. We had our private lives, but on screen you couldn’t have had a closer thing to a real marriage, which was lovely.
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