Coronation Street star Roberta Kerr is set to reprise the role of Wendy Crozier as the character returns to the cobbles for the first time in 10 years.
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Former Coronation Street actor Charlie Lawson has led tributes to one-time co-star Johnny Briggs - known to millions as ladies man Mike Baldwin.
Enniskillen-born star Lawson, who played Jim McDonald in the long-running ITV soap, described Briggs, who was a fixture on the cobbles for 30 years and one of its most famous faces, as a cheeky wee character .
Briggs family said he had died peacefully after a long illness. He was aged 85.
His storylines included an affair, in the early 1980s, that gripped the nation.
Deirdre (Anne Kirkbride) and Mike had an illicit relationship two years into her marriage to Ken Barlow (William Roache), but she decided to stay with her husband.
He was the Casanova of Coronation Street, the leery lad with a macho swagger who made a play for every woman he fancied.
As factory boss Mike Baldwin, he spent 30 years locked in a feud over his lust for another man’s wife – an affair that divided the entire country.
And the private life of actor Johnny Briggs, who has died aged 85 after a long illness, was no less racked by scandals over women.
Twice divorced, he bragged of more than 1,000 sexual conquests and suffered repeated humiliations in the news pages for his outspoken sexist attitudes as well as his infidelities.
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