The actress, who plays Rita Sullivan, opens up in a rare interview for ITV documentary Rita and Me. For a persona so instantly recognised and beloved, Barbara has always limited the interviews she has given, meaning we truly know little about the woman behind the star
Her mother worked in a mill, her father was a fireman, and young Barbara Brothwood from Oldham, Lancashire, grew up with gritty survival instilled at the forefront of any professional ambition.
Read more: Coronation Street's Star Daniel Brocklebank steps out with new hunky boyfriend for the first time She has always been “very shy”, she’s admitted, although her mother told her early on: “Barbara, you can’t hide your light under a bushel. Unless you tell people what you can do, unless you show them, you will never get anywhere.” It was advice she heeded. Perhaps her mum couldn’t guess where that light would shine, but it has shone, and dazzlingly.
“I thought, ‘I’m going to be in this forever, that’s just the part I have been looking for’,” she admitted. But the role lasted just two episodes, and it would be 1972 before she was invited back. In the meantime, she settled into life as a jobbing actor, working in theatre, radio, and in TV sketches with some of the biggest names in comedy, including Les Dawson and Mike Yarwood.
Of joining the cast she has recalled being so nervous she even lost her voice after a few days. The actors she worked alongside were some of the biggest names of the day, including Violet Carson who played Ena Sharples, and Pat Phoenix – Elsie Tanner. “I was terrified of them,” she said. The long-term storyline around her relationship with Alan Bradley, ending in the notorious Blackpool tram scene in 1989, which killed off the baddie, won her the TV Times award for Best Actress. And her double acts with Mavis and Norris , touching and hilarious by turns, are some of the most memorable in soap history.
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