Sue Nicholls is pleased 'Coronation Street' are covering her character's love life because it is "never too late to find love".
Sue Nicholls
The 74-year-old actress is glad the ITV soap aren't just focusing on romances for the younger generations in the show, with her alter-ego Audrey Roberts set to reunite with conman Lewis Archer (Nigel Havers), and she feels "very lucky" to be playing out the plot.
When asked if she is pleased 'Corrie' have opted to show a romance that doesn't just feature youngsters, she replied: "Yes I am, it is important, not everyone wants romance later in life but it happens and it is a lovely thing. I am very lucky to have the opportunity to play this storyline.
"It is never too late to find love."
Audrey and Lewis will reunite when she heads to prison to visit him, lying to her family about where she is going, and she admits Nigel "helps" the characters' relationship to "look truthful".
She said: "He is lovely to work with I find it very easy to do the scenes with him, I want it to look truthful and he helps.
"Audrey really cares for him and it will be interesting to see how this develops.
"She thinks that she will always wonder if she doesn't do this [visit him]. She is 78 and she might not get another chance at love so she can't think about their opinion.
"She also thinks that yes it might go wrong but if it does she is no worse off and actually it might all work out."
However, Audrey's daughter Gail Platt (Helen Worth) will be furious when she finds out her mum has been seeing Lewis again, after he blackmailed her for £40,000 before fleeing to Belize in 2013, only for him to return earlier this year to try to con her again.
But Lewis aims to get back into Audrey's good books by putting the cash back into Gail's bank account, and Sue is surprised her character hasn't had it out with Gail about her daughter embarking on a "serious affair" with Lewis while Audrey was in a relationship with him.
Sue added: "Gail always harps on about what Lewis did to her and I have thought about it and really nobody else has ever appreciated that when the kerfuffle happened years ago.
"Gail knew that Audrey was having a relationship with him and they were together and it was actually quite a serious affair.
"He might have done wrong to Gail but Audrey was wronged by both of them and hurt most, so Gail shouldn't really have the moral high ground on this one.
"Maybe Audrey should tell her one day, that might come."
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