Coronation Street legend Thelma Barlow, who played the role of Mavis, talks to Susanna Reid and Ed Balls about the potential of returning to the cobbles.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Coronation Street icon Thelma Barlow has come out of retirement to make a new short film at the age of 95. Thelma first appeared on the ITV soap as dithering Mavis Riley at the engagement party of Emily and Ernie Bishop in 1971.
Now, after years out of the spotlight, she’s starring in Sleepless in Settle – a 20-minute comedy filmed in Rye and Rye Harbour on the East Sussex coast. The film has been written and directed by actress Judy Flynn, who appeared as a secretary in Dinnerladies, which is where the two women met back in the late 90s.
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