EXCLUSIVE: When Kym Marsh’s final scene aired on Coronation Street, she vowed to disappointed fans that she would return one day to the cobbles – but when will that day come?
Coronation Street fans are in for a huge disappointment, as Kym Marsh has backtracked on her previous promise she would reprise her role as Michelle Connor.
The Waterloo Road star had revealed in 2022 that she had a “huge soft spot” for Corrie and had “no doubt” that she’d be back in the end, after an incredible 13 years. However, five years on from her dramatic departure, during an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, Kym admitted that a return anytime soon would be “an impossibility”.
“I’m very busy at the moment – I’m on the road and still on tour,” she explained. The actress, who is starring as iconic villain Cruella de Vil in a nationwide musical tour of 101 Dalmatians this summer, hasn’t been keeping up with the Lauren grooming storyline that has gripped the nation, either.
Lauren (played by Cait Fitton) had audiences on the edge of their seats as she made her return after being presumed dead – only to reveal the shock twist that she is pregnant by the outwardly respectable solicitor who has been abusing and grooming her, Joel (Callum Lill). He now has Lauren holed up in a disused flat, while plotting to induce a very premature labour with pills, hoping to kill the baby.
However, referring to her jam-packed schedule, Kym admitted: “I’ve not got any time to watch TV at the minute. I’m working all the time.” In fact, the stressed star hasn’t even been making time to enjoy a Sunday roast with her family – but that could be about to change after she opened the new Farmhouse Kitchen restaurant.
“We are very family orientated. We’ve always been very much like that, and I think meal times are very important when it comes to family,” she explained.
“I like to sit down with people and chat about what’s happening and how school’s been or how a job’s been, everything like that.”
However, she added: “For me at the moment, in particular, I feel like, because I’m traveling around the country, I don’t often get to do the whole Sunday lunch thing anymore.”
Minutes before cutting the ribbon on a new Manchester carvery restaurant, however, she admitted she was feeling inspired to find a way to enjoy that family time at the lunch table again.
“You can have your carvery on a Tuesday if you want to and break that mould!”
The former Strictly star, who confirmed her support for her 2022 partner Graziano di Prima during our interview, added that she always finds joy in being “sociable” over a roast dinner.
She was also in raptures over the mouth-watering range of cakes in the restaurant, vowing she’d try some as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.
Confessing she was “very tempted” by the lemon drizzle, chocolate, caramel, red velvet, and carrot cakes, she exclaimed: “I’ve been looking at them all. They’re incredible!”
