Coronation Street star Jane Danson has given a little glimpse into how things sometimes work on the long-running show as she praised her 'supportive' co-star. Fans of the ITV soap will best know the actress for playing Leanne Battersby.
12.01.2024 - 12:05 / ok.co.uk
Dame Barbara Windsor's widower Scott Mitchell has opened up on how he is learning to love again with "wonderful" EastEnders star Tanya Franks - admitting it "can't be easy" to step into the late TV legend's shoes. Barbara died in December 2020, aged 83, after a battle with Alzheimer's disease, leaving a devastated Scott, 60, mourning the loss of his wife of 20 years.
He had been supported throughout Barbara's illness by her EastEnders castmates, who he ran the 2019 London Marathon with to raise money for dementia charities, and his friendship with Tanya, who starred as Rainie Cross in the BBC soap until June 2022, eventually turned into something more, just under three years after his beloved Barbara's death. Scott said: "I got into a new relationship last year.
I’m very happy, she’s a wonderful lady who knew Barbara and is very understanding. "It can’t be easy to be with someone who was the other half of Barbara Windsor, especially the fact that I still put myself out there and talk about her.
So, it says to me the type of person that Tanya is, that she can deal with that. She’s very sure of herself as a person." But he added that his grief over Barbara still hits him, saying: "Just because you’re not with someone for whatever reason, it doesn’t mean to say that you just switch off some valve of love.
There’s always going to be a place for Barbara in my heart.
I might turn the TV on and suddenly she’ll be there and it takes my breath away sometimes, because I’m not expecting it." Tanya, 56, is also known for her previous roles in Family Affairs and comedy Pulling, and bonded with Scott over her own experiences of dementia, as her step-father had also been diagnosed with the disease. Scott spoke to Kaye Adams on her How
.Coronation Street star Jane Danson has given a little glimpse into how things sometimes work on the long-running show as she praised her 'supportive' co-star. Fans of the ITV soap will best know the actress for playing Leanne Battersby.
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