CORRIE will kick off a doppelganger storyline inspired by one of its stars constantly being mistaken for a Brookside actor in real life.
Star Jane Hazlegrove - who plays Bernie Winter in the ITV soap - suggested to bosses about creating a double for her character after realising that she looked exactly like Brookside and former Cobbles actor Gabrielle Glaister.
And as a result Glaister, is making a return back to Weatherfield after a 22 years hiatus as Deborah "Debs" Brownlow - but this time she will be an entirely new character.
In fact, the pair look so similar that some of their Corrie co-stars have even stopped Glaister in the corridors at the soap's studios thinking that they were having a chat with Hazlegrove.
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