Actress Alison King has been a regular character in Coronation Street since 2006 but off-screen, her life is drastically different from that of Carla Connor on the Cobbles
Actress Alison King has become a firm fixture on the screens of Corrie fans, having starred in the soap as Carla Connor for the past 17 years.
A keen surfer herself in her spare time, she then spent four years working as a dental nurse before enrolling in the North Cheshire Theatre School at the age of 22. In the years that followed, Alison worked as a model in the late 1990s, becoming the face of Boddington beer and having a recurring role in the Daz adverts.
Her next role – and best known aside from Corrie – is as Lynda Block in Sky One's Dream Team. She went on to date her co-star Jim Alexander, who she became engaged to, but they called it off soon after. In 2004 she appeared in Corrie as a one-off character called Mrs Fanshaw, brought in to 'sex up' Ryan Thomas ' character Jason Grimshaw. After impressing soap bosses, Alison was cast as Carla Connor and made her debut on the cobbles in 2006.
Alison later went on to have a five-year relationship with Corrie co-star Philip Middlemiss, who played Des Barnes. In November 2018, Alison was pictured with a new 'mystery man', who she revealed was IT consultant David Stuckley when they announced their engagement in OK! magazine a year later. But in May 2022 it was reported the pair had split after 'growing apart' during lockdown.
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