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Simon Duke

What happened to Crossroads? From ratings winner to bizarre end as ITV's Nolly remembers soap icon

It used to be one of the most watched shows on television and on Thursday, those viewers who remember tuning into Crossroads back in the day, will be taken on a trip down down memory lane thanks to new ITV drama Nolly.

With Helena Bonham Carter in the lead role of Crossroads matriarch Noele 'Nolly' Gordon, three part series Nolly will look at how Noele went from being the biggest star on British TV to being given her marching orders at the height of her fame.

Being told by her ITV bosses that 'all good things must come to an end,' Noele was left in a state of utter shock at being axed from the show she called home for nearly two decades in 1981. She would later return for a few episodes two years later, before her death in 1985 at the age of 65.

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