Who is Jodie Prenger?

ACTRESS Jodie Prenger has landed her "dream part" on ITV soap Coronation Street.

The 43-year-old shot to fame after winning BBC talent show I'd Do Anything in 2008.

Who is Jodie Prenger?

Jodie is an English actress and singer, born on June 12, 1979, in Blackpool.

She performed extensively on the cabaret circuit in Blackpool and Fylde coast where she also worked as an agony aunt.

In 1998, Jodie was appearing in two different shows each night in two Blackpool theatres.

Prenger made her first TV appearance in 1999 when she appeared on A Taste For Travel with her mother.

Then in 2000, she took part in Dale Winton's show The Other Half on BBC One where she had to pretend to be the wife of boxer Chris Eubank.

Later that year, she played the role of the good witch Hurricane in Halloween Spectacular On Ice at Alton Towers.

In 2001, she spent eight months aboard the cruise ship Disney Wonder as one of four main entertainers.

What TV shows has she been in?

In 2008, Jodie rose to fame after winning I'd Do Anything.

The show saw 12 wannabe Nancys sing their hearts out each week in order to win the prized role in musical Oliver.

The girls performed in different coloured dresses over ten weeks, when Jodie beat the remaining two contestants to the title.

IAfter her win, Jodie was a guest panellist on ITV's Loose Women and would occasionally present the midweek National Lottery draw on BBC One.

In June 2011, she appeared in an episode of Waterloo Road as Linda Wickes.

In 2013, she participated in Let's Dance for Comic Relief, where she finished in second place behind Antony Cotton.

She has also been a regular contributor on The Alan Titchmarsh Show and This Morning.

And Jodie frequently sits in for Paul O'Grady and Elaine Paige, when they are absent from their BBC Radio 2 shows.

In December 2011, she appeared on CBeebies Justin's House.

Her acting credits include Waterloo Road, Hustle, Casualty, Jamie Johnson and Run.

In 2022, she appeared in one episode of detective drama Shakespeare And Hathaway,

When is she joining Coronation Street?

Prenger is set to play cruise performer Glenda, the sister of Coronation Street undertaker George Shuttleworth, played by Tony Maudsley.

Her character will first appear on screens in August 2022 straight from a stint on the cruise ships and quickly finds a job behind the bar of the Rovers.

Speaking about joining the ITV soap, she said: "I know I sound like a soppy sod, but it's been on my bucket list to be in Coronation Street since I was little. 

"It's an honour, it truly is a very special moment in my life. To be part of something my family and I have loved for so long. And what a character, oh I have to say, total dream part.'"

Is Jodie married and does she have children?

In April 2012, Prenger announced her engagement to Simon Booth.

The news came shortly after her father Marty sadly died of kidney cancer.

Speaking to at the time, she explained: "I'm just so glad Dad knew I was going to be taken care of.

"Dad loved Simon like a son and always said I'd be safe with him. Simon's a good man with a good soul, just like my dad."

The actress was previously engaged to Steve Greengrass, who proposed to her after the Saturday show in week three of I'd Do Anything on April 12, 2008.

However, it wasn't meant to be and she ended things with him a few weeks before the show's finale.

As of yet, Prenger has no children and is not married.