She played popular Rovers Return barmaid and landlady Shelley Unwin on Coronation Street for five years and Sally Lindsay was inspired by one of her biggest soap storylines for her new TV drama.
Sally, who went on to star in Mount Pleasant, Still Open All Hours, Ordinary Lies, Moving On and Cold Call, has harked back to her Corrie days to create, co-write and executive-produce The Madame Blanc Mysteries.
The actress from Stockport was inspired by the bigamy storyline she was involved with in Coronation Street, which she’d always wanted to explore further, when she created Jean White, a widowed antiques dealer who travels to the French village of Sainte Victoire to sort out her husband’s affairs. READ MORE: Strictly's Adam Peaty issues
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