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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Actor says row over free birthday cakes for her party is ‘utterly bizarre’

Catherine Tyldesley, seen here at a Bafta awards reception in May 2023, wearing embroidered silver ballgown and holding champagne glass
Catherine Tyldesley – seen here at a Bafta awards reception, May 2023 – said she ‘would never ask anyone to work for free or provide product for free’. Photograph: Kate Green/Bafta/Getty Images for Bafta

A former Coronation Street actor has hit out at an “utterly bizarre” row over birthday cakes which stemmed from claims that a bakery owner was asked to bake 102 of them for nothing.

The bakery owner, Rebecca Severs, of the Three Little Birds bakery in Keighley, West Yorkshire, took to Facebook to say that free cakes had been requested by a party planner in exchange for social media and magazine plugs.

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