Icon of stage and screen Amanda Barrie talks turning 90, and Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 have a football-themed samba ...

And the following year I married my long-time partner, novelist Hilary Bonner. Old fears die slowly. After so many years of hiding my real self, even as the ceremony proceeded a little part of me did ...

Amanda Barrie has revealed that she used to worry about being fired from Coronation Street if bosses discovered her sexuality. Appearing on Good Morning Britain on Thursday (11 September), the 89-year ...

A few years ago, Coronation Street legend Amanda Barrie said she would have been sacked from the show if she’d come out in the 80s. Amanda Barrie, who played the legendary Alma ...

To many fans, Amanda Barriewill always be Coronation Street’s Alma Baldwin. But there’s another role which might actually be even closer to home for Amanda: Bad Girls. The female prison drama ...

When fans gave Amanda Barrie a huge ovation when she left Celebrity Big Brother on Tuesday, they had no idea that she'd once again gone in on Shane Jenek. In the hours before Tuesday's (not-at-all ...

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