Viewers of Coronation Street will be seeing double this week as Bernie opens her front door and finds herself face to face with her ‘twin’, Fern.
Actress Jane Hazlegrove, 54 who stars as Bernie Winter, had the idea for the storyline herself after years of being mistaken for her friend and fellow actress, Gabrielle Glaister, 62.
Together with Corrie writer Jonathan Harvey ,she has worked to create the perfect plot and bring Gabrielle back to the cobbles.
Jane has revealed that the pair look so similar that some of their Coronation Street colleagues have even stopped Gabrielle in the corridor to chat thinking it was her.
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