Denise Welch would consider Corrie comeback for 'great storyline'

23 July 2018

Denise Welch would consider a 'Coronation Street' return for a "great storyline".

Denise Welch (right) in Different For Girls

The 60-year-old star played Natalie Barnes for three years on the cobbles before departing the soap in 2000, and while she is busy with other projects at the moment, the former 'Waterloo Road' actress wouldn't rule out re-appearing in Weatherfield.

The 'Different For Girls' actress exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "When you leave the job you leave it. I would never say never about going back but they've never asked me back and I've never asked to go back.

"Because I've been very fortunate and I've worked since I left, and I left through my own choice.

"But if there was a great storyline or something, of course. But I quite like my life as it is, and I'm doing this show ['Calendar Girls'] for nine months, I'm doing 'Loose Women', I've got a novel coming out.

"It's not like there is any room for anything in the foreseeable future."

Natalie fled to the Cotswolds to start a new life on New Year's Eve 2000 after selling the Rovers Return, and Denise has hinted she was surprised to find out her alter-ego had a cousin living in the idyllic location.

She added: "She didn't die and now she's with her cousin in the Cotswolds who she never mentioned during the four years she was there."

Denise is currently starring in lesbian web series 'Different For Girls' as Theresa May-loving character Mauve - and she was "completely sold" on the part when she discovered her alter-ego had a soft spot for the British Prime Minister.

She recently said: "I loved it. Listen, I'm such a friend of the gays, I might as well be a lesbian. A dykon, they call me.

"When they said, 'Would you play this LLL - later life lesbian - who realises she fancies Theresa May?' I was completely sold.

"Even Judi Dench would struggle with that one. I thought, if there's a challenge ever to be had, it's to play a lesbian who fancies Theresa May."

'Different For Girls' is available to watch now on Lesbian Box Office.