He was seven years old when Coronation Street first appeared on TV and he asked his mum if people would ever stop making jibes about his name. “Don’t worry,” she told him, “the programme won’t last long...” As the ITV soap celebrates its 60th anniversary this week, it seems she was mistaken.
Mirror reader Ken Barlow, who was born in Salford, has faced six decades of people Corrie-ing on about his name. “Now, I pre-empt the cracks.
When I introduce myself I add, ‘Ken Barlow – as in Coronation Street ’. "I watch every episode otherwise I wouldn’t know what people are on about.
Folk are always saying, ‘Oh, I saw you last night and you were in trouble’. I got a lot of stick when he was fighting with Mike Baldwin.” Sharing a name with the
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