Veteran soap star Barbara Knox is one of the longest-serving cast members on Coronation Street, but what do we know about her life away from the cobbles? Let's take a look...
The veteran soap star made her name on the cobbles shortly after its on-screen debut making her one of the longest-serving cast members.
From costar spats to personal brushes with the law, the past 56 years have been as dramatic off-screen as on-screen.Marriage and divorce Off-screen, Barbara has been married twice, first to Denis Mullaney in 1956. Landlady Bet Lynch won a competition, and so the script called for a trip to Majorca with some of the female cast members.
She said: "I’ll tell you a story out of school. We got word that the ladies were going to work in Majorca for a week and the men in the cast, the silly beggars, they wouldn’t speak to us.Drunk driving conviction In 2014, Barbara was arrested on suspicion of drink drinking.
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