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Coronation Street icon Julie Goodyear nearly got the sack after sex toy stunt went wrong
CORONATION Street legend Julie Goodyear has revealed she was nearly sacked from the soap after pulling a saucy stunt during filming.
The actress and her co-star Roy Barraclough, who played Rovers Return husband and wife Bet Lynch and Eric Gilroy, once appeared in a bedroom scene where he mischievously produced a vibrator.
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Julie, now 79, responded by pressing a button on her novelty pyjamas which played the song “The Only Way is Up”, leaving the crew in hysterics but the producers enraged.
Speaking on YouTube show, Your Manchester, she said: “We hadn’t been in the bed very long - only five seconds.
“All I could hear was buzzing.
“And it was vibrator he’d got under the covers. So I thought right, OK.
“The crew, everybody, were all in hysterics. So I pressed my pyjama top - it played The Only Way Is Up.
“It made the crew worse. We were threatened with the sack. I wish we could see it again.”
Bosses of the Weatherfield soap scrapped the scene and it never saw the light of day.
Julie first joined the ITV soap in 1966 as iconic character Bet, returning in 1970 ahead of her lengthy stint on the show.
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While she quit the cobbles in 1995 - winning the NTA’s Lifetime Achievement Award - she has made cameo appearances since, much to the delight of fans.
The actress was last spotted on set in 2003 for a storyline in Blackpool, as she helped track down Charles Lawson following his escape from prison.
Comedy veteran Roy played her husband Eric, a theatrical agent-turned pub lanlord, on Corrie from 1986 to 1998, during which time they ran the Rovers Return as landlord and landlady.
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