Bill Ward’s latest acting role may come as quite a shock if you know him best from Emmerdale and Corrie. He sings, he sort of dances a bit, he cross-dresses, he even gets his kit off and – here’s the really weird bit – not once does he get murdered. “It’s an absolutely joyous experience,” is how he describes his part in touring play The Glee Club, the 60s-set story of a bunch of Yorkshire miners who perform in a traditional close-harmony group.
And yes, I should imagine it is – compared to being fatally bludgeoned by Corrie’s Tracy Barlow or shoved to his death from a footbridge by Emmerdale’s Emma Barton.
Not that Bill regrets either of those experiences. Builder Charlie Stubbs, the bully he played in Coronation Street from 2003 to 2007,
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