Coronation Street's Bill Roache will be reunited with former screen wife Anne Reid - more than 50 years after she left the soap. New ITV documentary Happy Birthday Bill celebrates Bill’s 90th birthday, as well as his record-breaking stint on the series.
In the show the Ilkeston-raised actor, who plays Ken Barlow, will get back together with Anne, who played his first wife Valerie before her untimely demise at the hands of a faulty hairdryer. Asked what was the highlight of the new doc, Bill says: “Without a doubt meeting up with Anne Reid again after all those years. She played my wife in Coronation Street for eight years and I was very sad when she chose to leave.
“When Valerie died she was due to meet Ken at the Rovers so when she walked through the doors finally 52 years later it was a lovely moment, we both just started laughing. It was beautiful to see her again, to me she looks no different.”
