Ex-Corrie star Sally Lindsay has leapt to the show’s defence following criticism that it is too violent.
The actress, who played Rovers Return barmaid then landlady Shelley Unwin for five years, said the soap wouldn’t be airing the storylines if there wasn’t an appetite for them from fans.
But she said it was important that the writers got the balance right and included plenty of laughs too.
Sally, 44, admitted she found it difficult to watch Coronation Street 12 years after she left the show but that it had nothing to do with any of the violence, simply that it had changed so much since was there.
But she said the recent on-screen deaths at the hands of villain Pat Phelan weren’t all that dissimilar to those of Corrie serial killer Richard Hillman in the 2000s.
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“The dark storylines happened when I was there. We got 20 million viewers doing it with Richard, and that was gruesome,” she said.
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