On his deathbed, Kimberly Hart-Simpson’s father told his aspiring actress daughter: “Just do me a favour and get Corrie, love.” And now, after 10 years of trying, at last she has fulfilled his dying wish.
Kimberly, 33, knows just how her dad would have reacted if he had lived to see her Coronation Street debut, on June 19, playing Nicky Wheatley, the bubbly sex worker who seduces Daniel Osbourne.
She says: “He would be beaming with pride and would tell everyone. “He’d go in a shop and someone would ask him, ‘Where’s the biscuits?’ and he’d say, ‘My daughter’s in Corrie.’ He’d say it for no reason.
It would have meant the world to him, but I know he’ll know.” Kimberly started trying out for roles in the soap just after she graduated from
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