It's hard to remember Katherine Kelly playing gobby barmaid Becky McDonald. The much-loved actress rose to fame in 2006 as the Coronation Street factory worker, who was only met to stick around for a short while and was destined to be killed off at one stage. "I was told to turn up looking as c*** as possible, with no make-up," explained Katherine, now 41, while discussing her Corrie audition with The Mirror in November 2006. "But that morning I'd also been for an audition where I had to look really glamorous.
So I sat on the Tube putting grease in my hair and wiping my make-up off with everyone looking at me. By the time I got there I looked a right state!" She drew inspiration from her Nan and dad's old Yorkshire phrases and thanks
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