CORONATION Street star Jane Hazlegrove has revealed she’s signed a new contract to remain on the soap.
The actress - who plays Bernie Winter in the ITV soap - has put pen to paper for another year on the cobbles after revealing she only joined the soap to pay for her new bathroom.
And it means she’s escaped .
Jane first appeared on the cobbles in 2019 as Gemma Winter and Paul Foreman’s estranged mother Bernie, but since then she’s become a fan favourite.
And luckily for them, she’s going nowhere.
Speaking to My Weekly, Jane revealed: “I only came into for 10 episodes to get a new bathroom.
“I’d run out of money and when they said, ‘Will you come and do Corrie for a bit?’ I thought, ‘Yes! That will pay for a nice white suite!.
“I’ve been here for six years now and I’ve just signed for another year. It’s a lovely place to work. I feel very blessed.”
The star’s character Bernie is set to marry Dev Alahan next week in a huge soap wedding - but typically things go horrifically wrong.
As she heads to the ceremony, Bernie realises she’s forgotten a locket from her late son Paul so heads back to the house.
But while there she finds it being burgled and she confronts them - before eventually rushing over to tie the knot.
However after arriving and dancing herself down the aisle Bernie suffers a health emergency and stops breathing.
Jane explained: “Suddenly Bernie can’t breathe, the poor love, and ends up in A&E.
“Dev, and a lot of people, think she’s on her way out because it’s quite serious.
“She is really frightened, this has come from nowhere and she can’t breathe. It’ s terrifying. Is she going to be okay?”
She added: “That’s what is so brilliant about Coronation Street, you don’t know what you’re going to get until you open the page of the script and that’s what is so fantastic about how it plays out - we’ve got this woman raving down the aisle and the next minute she’s in casualty, pardon the pun!
“The writers throw all kinds of things at you and you just hope and pray you give credence and justice to whatever they’ve written.
“Who knows what Bernie is going to do next, that’s why I love playing her.”
