Julie Hesmondhalgh once bought a cardboard cutout of herself.
Julie Hesmondhalgh bought a life-size cardboard cutout of herself
The 53-year-old actress was honoured to have had a picture of herself looking "very glam" at an awards ceremony made into a life-sized novelty print and was even more thrilled to see the price had gone up in recent years as she revealed she bought a copy for her friend who lives in London.
She told Metro newspaper's SixtySeconds column: "I think the price has gone up! That's better than your IMDb page is that - how much your cardboard cutout is. I got one for my mate Raz who I stay with when I'm in London, so he wouldn't miss me when I wasn't there. It's me at the National TV Awards so I'm very glam in it.
"I don't think he's ever seen me like that in his life."
Julie is best known for her portrayal of knicker stitcher Hayley Cropper on 'Coronation Street' but almost a decade after leaving the ITV1 soap, she has been reunited with former co-star Katherine Kelly - who played diamond-in-the-rough Becky Granger on the serial - as they both star in the upcoming ITV1 drama 'Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office', which is based on the Post Office scandal that saw a number of sub-postmasters wrongly prosecuted for fraud.
During their time on 'Coronation Street', Hayley became something of a surrogate mother towards Becky and Julie explained that even though this time round, they only had a couple of days on set, they had an "absolutely joyous" time together.
She said: "It's funny because we were both in 'Happy Valley' series two but on that we never even crossed paths in the make-up chair. On this we only had two days together, but it was absolutely joyous between scenes. We have a lot to catch up on every time."
'Mr. Bates vs the Post Office' will air on ITV1 from 1 January.
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