A CORRIE legend has made a very rare Instagram appearance while reuniting with his former co-stars, and fans are making the same demand.
Coronation Street legend Chris Gascoyne, who played Peter Barlow in the hit soap, reunited with Jane Danson and Georgia Taylor this week.
Chris’ character of Peter departed the soap on Boxing Day last year in emotional scenes when he struggled with guilt over his involvement in the death of serial killer Stephen Reid
And now Chris has posed for a snap with Jane and Georgia, who play Leanne and Toyah Battersby, after his performance at the Bradford Alhambra Theatre in the pantomime, Pinocchio, as the evil Stromboli.
Standing in the middle of Jane and Georgia, Chris could be seen beaming as he reunited with his former Corrie co-stars a year after his departure.
Jane could be seen smiling wide while donning some glasses, while Chris beamed also wearing glasses, and Georgia smiled beside her two pals.
The trio all looked happy to be in each other’s company again.
Georiga shared the snap on her Instagram page and penned an accompanying caption which read: “Watching our beloved PB giving his best baddie in Pinocchio.
“Eyeliner and black nail varnish never looked so good on a guy.”
Fellow Corrie star Sally Carmen, who plays Abi Webster in the hit soap, simply penned: “Joyous!”
A fan of the soap then wrote: “The first boyfriend you shared, then Imran the second, and Nick the third lol. Will Leanne fall for Spider someday?”
While a third person said: “Oooh Peter Barlow. Missing my eye candy on corrie.”
“Wonderful to see actors supporting actors,” swooned a fourth.
A fifth person then demanded: “I love this, get Chris back on Corrie.”
“I really miss his character in Corrie, I hope you return at some point,” echoed a sixth.
While a seventh said: “I miss Peter In Corrie need him back.”
And an eighth person wrote: “Can’t wait for his return to Corrie as Peter. ..that will be fun!! Watch out Swain.”
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Chris played Peter Barlow from 2016 until 2023, though he previously left the role in 2003 and returned briefly in 2007.
He is the seventh actor to play Ken Barlow’s eldest son.
Talking to BBC News at the time of his departure from the cobbles, Chris said: “The thing that upset me though was walking away from the people I work with and I don’t just mean the actors.
“I’ve known all these people for nearly half my life. I’ve grown up with so many people there but I need a rest and to look to do something different, I’m not getting any younger.”
He then added: “Of course, I’ve not ruled a return out, it’s been such a part of my life.”
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A GREGGS superfan who has forked out a whopping £1,600 on sausage rolls got a tattoo of the pastry on his arm.
Matthew McCarroll, 31, has scoffed four of the tasty treats every Friday night for the last seven years as a reward for finishing the working week – racking up 1,456.
His love for the snack started when he was a kid, and now they’re his favourite food.
To pay homage, the council groundsman decided to get a £200 six-inch inking of one – with a halo-like orange glow around it – on his right arm.
The three-hour design was finally finished on December 14 following two visits to the Sun and Moon studio in Glasgow, Scotland, and he quipped he now looks like an “advertising board” for Greggs.
Matthew, of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, said: “I’ve had Greggs sausage rolls since I was a child.
“I’m not the best eater in the world but I knew I liked sausage rolls so it was something I would fall back on as I got older.
“My routine on a Friday after work is I go straight to Greggs and then go for a nap, it’s brilliant.
“It started seven years ago. My usual order is four sausage rolls, I eat them in one go after my shift.
“The dream is if Greggs sees the tattoo, it would be great to get something that acknowledges I’ve got it, maybe a t-shirt.”
Greggs have not yet offered Matthew any freebies.
The company has been contacted for comment.
IT is perhaps the most chilling court ruling we can recall.
The High Court’s Mr Justice Williams hid the identity of another judge who handed Sara Sharif to her abusive father in 2019 because, he said, the media couldn’t be trusted with it.
It is the duty of a free Press to question whether that family court ruling ultimately led to the circumstances which ended in the child’s torture and death.
But naming any of those who made it — despite Urfan Sharif’s violent record — could, Williams said, expose them to criticism he would consider unfair.
He even named one journalist he liked and another he didn’t.
This judge’s subjective biases and disdain for the media don’t enter into it.
Is he aware of “free expression”? Press freedom?
Or the peril of the secret justice he and others seem to want?
Open justice is under increasing assault . . . with judges frequently granting anonymity, even to convicted criminals in immigration cases.
Their rulings cannot be above Press scrutiny.
But how can they be held to account if one covers up for another?
This dangerous precedent rightly faces an Appeal Court challenge.
But the Lord Chief Justice should review this pompous fool’s fitness for the job.
BY any measure Labour’s rapid surrender to Aslef has proved an unmitigated disaster.
The then Transport Secretary Louise Haigh, an ex-Unite shop steward later outed as a convicted fraudster, gleefully gave the militants their hearts’ desire.
It was a calamity politically, handing already well-paid train drivers huge sums just as the Government stripped skint OAPs of their winter fuel allowance.
Also economically, since the huge bill fuelled the “black hole” Labour has desperately tried to pin on the Tories.
And Haigh’s replacement Heidi Alexander now admits it has brought chaos to the rail network as drivers shun the lucrative overtime they no longer need.
It should be better next year, though, she says . . . showing yet more worrying naivety about the unions’ desire ever to run a functioning service.
REMEMBER the Left instantly piling into the police over the viral video of the Manchester Airport brawl in July?
They needed no further evidence.
The cops were simply “racist”.
Two nights of protest over “police brutality” ensued.
Even Labour ministers couldn’t resist voicing their “concern”.
The full video then revealed a different story.
Now two brothers involved have been charged — and the police, after five long months, are in the clear.
It is terrifying how a one-sided video clip tempted so many to join a vengeful mob.
CELEBRITY Gogglebox fans have ripped into Channel 4 just minutes into a ‘new episode’ of the hit show.
Viewers of the star-studded version of the fly on the wall series got settled in for what they thought was a new instalment.
However, just minutes into the episode they realised it was a ‘repeat’ of a previously broadcast episode.
It turned out Celebrity Gogglebox bosses had clipped together the last series’ best bits into a compilation episode.
Seething on social media, one fan wrote: “Really getting f****d off with the TV recently! EVERYTHING seems to be repeats! Got settled to watch Celeb Gogglebox thinking it was a new series, or a Christmas special! Oh how wrong am I! YET AGAIN ANOTHER REPEAT!”
A second fumed: “A Christmas compilation episode on the last Friday before Christmas is very disappointing.”
“Why are you calling this a new episode? It’s not new,” swiped a third.
While a fourth commented: “Where is Gogglebox? Why have Ch4 put on a summer edition with so called Celebrities in it? Not good I’ll watch No Time To Die. Thanks for nothing, Ch4.”
Some of the celebs appearing in the episode included Rylan Clark and his mum Linda, Danny Dyer and his daughter Dani, Clare Balding and Alice Arnold and Stephen Mangan and his sister Anita.
Meanwhile, a civilian fan-favourite has bravely opened up on her Bell’s Palsy diagnosis.
Sue Sheehan’s candidly spoke of her battle with the neurological disorder, which can cause temporary paralysis of the muscles in the side of the face.
Sue opened up on learning to live with the condition, which is, in most cases, temporary.
She said: “I mean I’ve actually learned to do a couple of things since this Bell’s Palsy,” to which her spouse replied: “Have you?”
She continued: “Yeah one is to speak through the side of my mouth
and the other one is chewing, chewing takes a long time.”
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A JUDGE is facing fury for preventing the Press from naming a colleague who put Sara Sharif in her killer father’s care.
Mr Justice Williams barred media outlets from identifying the family court decision maker, claiming some “will not” report it “fairly and accurately”.
He argued that, once in the public domain, the information “is available to anyone” and suggested a social media “lynch mob” could make known the judge’s address and movements.
And he said naming individuals would be like “holding the lookout on the Titanic responsible for its sinking”.
Outraged MPs said the ruling was an affront to open justice and set a dangerous precedent.
Tory Sir Alec Shelbrooke said: “Sunlight is the best disinfectant and the full facts of this case must be known, including who made these decisions.”
An appeal by media outlets, including The Sun, on public interest grounds will be heard in January.
The family court repeatedly returned Sara, left, to her family despite Surrey council’s “significant concerns”.
Dad Urfan Sharif, 42, and stepmum Beinash Batool, 30, were last week jailed for life for ten-year-old Sara’s horrific abuse and murder in Woking.
TYSON FURY’S family has once again borne the brutal brunt of his boxing career.
His wife Paris and their seven children live a life of magnificent luxury thanks to the 36-year-old’s fighting skills.
But back in May — just days before his original clash with Oleksandr Usyk — all that was suddenly irrelevant when they lost their son six months into pregnancy.
When brave Paris could not fly in for her man’s Saudi megafight, he knew tragedy had struck.
But she withheld the news from the emotionally vulnerable 6ft 9in star until he was home.
Fury refused to use the awful loss as an excuse for his split-decision defeat to the Ukrainian.
And as soon as the summer was over, he flew out to Malta for a 12-week camp where he trained like a brute and supposedly cut off all contact from his family.
When Paris and eldest son Prince arrived in Riyadh and took their places in the second row at Thursday’s press conference, Fury ignored his childhood sweetheart.
There was no gushing reunion kiss or cuddle, there was barely even any eye contact.
When asked how it felt leaving his brood behind after such a traumatic experience, Fury replied: “Difficult.
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“It’s difficult timing but, you know, life is difficult and this fight is even harder.
“So I have got to give myself the best opportunity that I can to get the victory.
“I won’t see Paris before the fight, not until after the fight.
“I’m fully focused and I don’t want my mind changing or taking off from where I am in fight mode and going into husband mode and all of that.
“In all my career of 36 fights, she’s only missed three of them.
“The first was when she was having our first child, Venezuela, on the same night as I boxed in Dublin years ago.
“Then there was another at The O2. And the other one was the last Usyk fight.
“This time, she’s coming but I won’t be seeing her, not until after the fight.”
It feels like a Spartan siege mentality we have never seen the likes of before — and all, apparently, to keep the Morecambe roof over their heads and Christmas presents under this year’s tree.
With the £300million the Gypsy King has banked from boxing alone — before you factor in his Netflix, book and sponsorship deals — his claims that back-to-back defeats to Usyk, 37, could lead to an eviction notice are fanciful.
But there’s a danger that — after decades of bravado — Fury could be left emotionally bankrupt by another loss, with the kids having to cope with the impact of that.
Fury said: “The kids are used to Daddy going away.
“Daddy’s got to do his job and pay the bills.
“And if Daddy doesn’t do that, then the house gets repossessed, unfortunately.
“If you don’t pay your bills, no matter how rich you are, you get repossessed, don’t you?”
While Fury is worried about the mortgage, there is a risk Usyk has been living in his head rent-free.
Trainer Andy Lee told SunSport that he won’t know the psychological damage the Usyk defeat has taken on his charge until the first bell.
Fury could have had his soul snatched and be a broken fighter by the manner of that first schooling.
On the other hand, he might be re-energised, laser-focused and harnessing the challenger mindset every fighter thrives on.
Even Fury himself does not seem to really know the answer.
He said: “Sometimes you think about the fight — it would be a lie to say you don’t.
“I don’t really feel nervous but . . . it’s not nerves for the fight.
“Because obviously I’ve had a lot of fights, I’m not bothered about anybody.
“But you feel like you’re nervous whether you’re going to perform to your best ability or not. Does that make sense?
“It’s not like a pressure of, ‘Oh, I’ve got to go for a fight now’. It’s something I’ve always done, amateur and professional.
“But you feel like, ‘I need to be the best I can be.’
“Hopefully you’re going to be good, do you know what I mean?”
“A lot of people, when they come to training camp, everybody thinks the job’s done.
“But fight week is the most important time of your training because during camp you can make a mistake.
“You can have a late night, you cannot sleep one night, whatever. And it’s fine.
“But make those mistakes in fight week — you go around too many people and catch a cold.
“You get an illness, whatever, even on the day before — and it can all be finished.”
Fury’s overbearing dad John — who headbutted a member of Team Usyk in the build-up to May’s clash and confused his son’s in-fight breaks with uneducated instructions — has been exiled from the corner.
But the Gypsy King has taken clearer orders this time from an arguably more mature family member.
Legends of the boxing world have expressed their offerings on the best approach to the fight.
But a tiny little terror — named after an ancient Greek icon more famous for love than war — has provided the most ruthless guidance.
Fury explained: “My Adonis, that’s my second-youngest son, he wants me to smash Usyk’s face right in.
“He’s only five. He wants me to severely smash it in.”
SHE was a golden girl of TV, playing a responsible big sister in a hit sitcom over 50 years ago.
At 13, this actress charmed viewers with her girl-next-door image and seemingly perfect life.
But as her fame grew she battled a devastating drug addiction, tragically traded sex for cocaine, and ruined her chances of becoming a big movie star.
In 2008 Maureen McCormick spoke about surviving fame and trauma in her bombshell book, Here’s The Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice.
In the book, The Brady Bunch beauty also revealed husband Michael Cummings saved her with an ultimatum to get clean or he’d leave.
The couple, who have been married for nearly 40 years, share daughter Natalie, 35 and now live a quiet life outside Los Angeles.
However, Maureen, 68, hasn’t turned her back on the show that she loved, and even reprised her role as Marcia Brady in the 2019 spin-off A Very Brady Renovation.
Susan Olsen, Mike Lookinland, Eve Plumb, Christopher Knight, Maureen and Barry Williams starred as the siblings in the US sitcom from 1969-1974 and reunited for the reboot.
Speaking about returning to the role for another stint, Maureen recently told People: “It’s so hard to do a reboot or a remake of something.
“So I feel very protective of it in a way. It has such great memories for so many people, but it would just have to absolutely knock my socks off for me to want to do anything with it. I would know in my heart.
“But it was such an incredible show to be a part of, and my best memories of the show are the people, the crew, and their families.”
Maureen was 14 years old when The Brady Bunch debuted on ABC, with her playing “Miss Perfect” Marcia – but in real life she struggled with anxiety, depression and bulimia.
She was born the youngest of four to a father who abused and cheated on their mother.
As a teenager she learned her grandmother died with syphilis in a mental institution, and that her own mother had contracted it in the womb – leaving her fearful she also had the disease.
She reminisced about her experiences in her book, writing: “As a teenager, I had no idea that few people are everything they present to the outside world.
“Yet there I was, hiding the reality of my life behind the unreal perfection of Marcia Brady.
“No one suspected the fear that gnawed at me even as I lent my voice to the chorus of Bradys singing, ‘It’s a Sunshine Day.’”
When the show ended Maureen turned to a life of partying in Hollywood, developing an addiction to cocaine and quaaludes aged 20.
She soon developed a bad reputation for being unreliable in the industry as addiction took over, even flunking an interview with Stephen Spielberg for Raiders Of The Lost Ark because she was high.
She admitted in her biography that she had sex with a cocaine dealer, and her behaviour led to three unwanted pregnancies.
She added: “I sought refuge in seemingly glamorous cocaine dens above Hollywood.
“I thought I would find answers there, while in reality I was simply running farther from myself.
“From there, I spiraled downward on a path of self-destruction that cost me my career and very nearly my life.”
Maureen went to rehab and credits her husband Michael and her daughter Natalie for turning her life around.