Coronation Street legend Sally Dynevor has spoken out about her future on the show following rumours of the cast being significantly reduced.
Sally has played Sally Metcalfe (née Seddon, previously, and much more famously, Webster) since 1986, celebrating 40 years on the cobbles next year and has featured in several iconic storylines.
Her on-again, off-again marriage to fellow stalwart Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell), suffering domestic violence, battling and defeating breast cancer (a story that mirrored the Dynevor’s own battle with the disease) and wrongful imprisonment for fraud have cemented her legacy as a legend of the Street and, if the actress has her way, there’ll be plenty more to come.
Speaking to Woman’s Weekly, Sally revealed that she’s: ‘not a retiring person’, adding ‘if they still want me, maybe I’ll be in the show in my 70s and 80s. I’ll just keep going!’
Sally currently finds herself in the middle of a fostering plot husband alongside husband Tim Metcalfe (Joe Duttine).
Following the conclusion of Lou (Farrel Hegarty) and Mick Michaelis’ (Joe Lawton) story seeing them both banged up, Sally and Tim, who previously took in tearaway teen Mason Radcliffe (Luca Toolan), have now taken in the criminal couple’s young daughters, Joanie and Shanice.
Although Sally was initially reticent, she soon came around to the idea of fostering.
Discussing her alter-ego’s storyline, Sally said: ‘Her own girls have grown up and gone, and this is a new chapter in her life. Although it’s hard, she’s really enjoying it.’
‘At the beginning, Sally wasn’t at all interested in fostering, it was more of a Tim project, but now she’s realising what the girls need and what she can give.
‘It’s a lovely story. It’s nice to show something good. There are times when I’ve wanted to foster myself and times where I don’t know if I have the patience anymore to do that full-time. I think you have to be a special person to foster and adopt.’
