“He said, ‘Between you and I, I’ve written a Coronation Street script’”: Morrissey once accosted a Corrie star, asked to be taken to the set and revealed he’d pitched to write for the show

Morrissey and the famous Corrie pub, The Rovers Return.

Ah, how nice to have a Morrissey story that’s not about the ex-Smiths frontman not having a pop at his former bandmates or saying something controversial. This one is about as homely as you can get: recently Coronation Street star Sally Dyvenor, a long-running member of the cast who’s appeared in the show as Sally Webster since 1986, revealed a cracker of a Morrissey story during an interview with BBC Manchester.

It all started with a chance encounter with Mozzer whilst she was doing a food shop, she explained. “I bumped into him in a health food shop,” she began. “He tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘Sally, hi, and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, it’s Morrissey’.”