Coronation Street favourite Thelma Barlow is still going strong aged 91.As we told yesterday, the actress who played Mavis Wilton from 1971 to 1997 – famed for her “I don’t really know” catchphrase – has turned down a return to the soap three times.Since leaving the cobbles, Thelma has starred in dinnerladies and Fat Friends, but after not seeing her on TV for a while, some people assumed she was no longer with us.But she is very much alive and kicking, just like these other celebs you have may have thought were dead, as Natasha Wynarczyk reveals.American star Van Dyke shot to fame playing chirpy chimney sweep Bert in 1964’s Mary Poppins, and appeared in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang four years later.
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