Buzzin Soap Stars

Coronation Street

It has been announced that the ITV soap Coronation Street is to be shown daily from May 31 – June 4, to cover the dramatic episodes coinciding with the Britain’s Got Talent semi-finals.

The first edition of the special week will air at 7pm on May 31 followed by five further episodes to be shown in the next five days from 9-9.30pm.

These special episodes will be covering the dramatic siege plot surrounding the Street’s villain Tony Gorden, played by Gray O’Brien.  Tony will be seen escaping from prison before holding a number of the streets regulars as hostages at the knicker factory ‘Underworld’.

Sheree Murphy

Former Emmerdale actress and current Hollyoaks star Sheree Murphy was involved in a car accident in Manchester yesterday.

The actress who is married to footballer Harry Kewell, suffered whiplash in the incident and was said to have been very shaken up and frightened after the accident.

Murphy’s husband rushed to be at her side while her £180,000 Bentley was at the roadside waiting for a breakdown truck to arrive.

The 34-year-old is currently playing the part of Eva, the long lost mother of Anita Roy after formerly playing the role of Trisha Dingle in Emmerdale.

kate ford (tracy barlow) peta ad

Kate Ford, the actress behind the Coronation Street bitch Tracy Barlow, has revealed her softer side in a sexy new advert for PETA designed to bring awareness to the way that bears in Canada suffer for the sake of The Queens Guards bearskin caps.

Ford has just shot the sexy new PETA ad that reads “Bare Skin, Not Bearskin”. The ad is part of PETA’s campaign to persuade the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to stop killing bears for the Buckingham Palace Guards’ ceremonial headwear. The ad was shot by ace photographer Karl Grant, and it is being released to coincide with Ford’s return to Coronation Street.

Kate said;

“I would never have dreamed of posing nude, but when PETA showed me the footage of the bears being shot and skinned just for the sake of these ornamental Guards’ caps, I decided to be brave and show some of my skin in the hope that the MoD will let the bears keep theirs. The cowardly hunters even bait the bears with food before ambushing them. When mother bears are killed, their cubs are left to slowly starve to death. This breaks my heart. I think it is despicable of the MoD to use taxpayers’ money to fund this cruelty overseas when there are synthetic faux furs available.”

PETA US obtained video footage of Canadian bears as they were killed by a method called “bait and shoot”, a cruel practice in which bears are lured to barrels of food and shot at close range.

Many bears are shot several times, and some escape and die slowly from blood loss, gangrene, starvation or dehydration. When mother bears are killed, orphaned cubs are left behind to starve. Typically, 70 per cent of orphaned cubs die within one year. Hunters have been caught on film making racist and sexist jokes while reducing bears from living beings to roll-up skins.

Ford joins many other celebrities – including Pamela Anderson, Lucy Davis, Morrissey, Julian Clary, Sadie Frost, Mary McCartney, Sir Roger Moore, Twiggy, Jilly Cooper, Hayley Mills and Amanda Holden – who have condemned the slaughter of bears for The Queen’s Guards’ ceremonial caps.

For more information visit the PETA website.

Coronation Street’s Vicky Binns has said she will be quitting the show after five years playing the character Molly Dobbs, originally joining the cast in 2005 as the corner shop worker with a love interest for naive Tyrone.

Having married Tyrone, Molly has recently found herself in the central storyline of the soap, having enjoyed (or endured) a six month relationship with her husband’s boss Kevin Webster.

Having planned a new life together the affair was ended by the news that Kevin’s wife Sally had breast cancer and he has since shut Molly out of his life.

The twist is that Molly is now pregnant and does not know who the father of the child is. The actress said:

“It’s been a joy to be involved in such a fantastic storyline and it is only right that it has the explosive ending viewers are waiting for. I am very excited about playing out the rest of this plot and indeed about what the future holds.I’ve had an amazing time in the show and feel it’s right to leave on such a high.”

Vicky Binns previously starred in Emmerdale for four years, playing the part of teenager Ollie Reynolds, before being chosen for the Corrie role.

Natalie Cassidy

Natalie Cassidy, who played the part of the lovable Sonia Fowler in Eastenders has been given her own reality TV show on E4.

The show is to be called ‘Natalie Cassidy: Becoming A Mum’ surrounding the expected birth of her first child which is due to be born in September.

There is to be four, 1 hour long documentaries to be screened in the Autumn which will follow the 26-year-old and her partner Adam on their journey preparing for the birth of their baby.