John Michie, who plays cheating Karl Munroe in Coronation Street, has spoken about his character’s current affair storyline.

The actor, who’s alter ego Karl is cheating on his partner, Stella (Michelle Collins), with her friend and employee Sunita (Shobna Gulati), has revealed to Inside Soap magazine his excitement over the storyline, and his prediction of an explosive reaction when Stella finds out what he has been up to.
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Royle Family star Ralf Little has revealed that he’d love to be in more episodes of the hit show.

30 year old Ralf launched his acting career with the comedy and said that it’s always been “a delight” to appear in episodes, even if it’s only for five minutes as his appearance was in the 2009 Christmas special.

While telling the PA how much he enjoyed working with Royle Family creators, Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, Ralf said, “Caroline was hilarious, she said, ‘I’m sorry, you’re only in the first five minutes again… Read more & comment »

Liverpool legend Ricky Tomlinson has revealed that he came close to saying no to reprising his iconic role as house layabout Jim Royle in the upcoming Christmas special of The Royle Family.

In an interview on Richard & Judy’s New Position last night on Watch (at 8pm), former Brookside star Ricky admitted that the success of last year’s comeback episode had discouraged him for signing up for another stint in the classic British sitcom – “I wasn’t going to do it because I thought ‘we’ve done the Queen of Sheba’ last year, and it was such a huge success, it was wonderful, and I actually said to John Russell our wonderful producer ‘I don’t fancy doing it John.”

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