Former ITV Corrie star Angela Lonsdale makes soap comeback

Former Coronation Street star Angela Lonsdale is back on our screens in a new soap role. The actress, who played Curly Watts' second wife Emma Taylor, has swapped Weatherfield for Chester to play the mum of a teen killer in Hollyoaks.

Emma, 54, played Sergeant Taylor, who met Curly when she arrived to investigate crimes in the area, from 2000 to 2003. They married on Christmas Eve 2000 and Emma gave birth to their son Ben on Boxing Day 2001.

In 2003 the couple put number 7 Coronation Street on the market and moved to Newcastle. But when Curly made a comeback for the 2010 spin-off DVD movie A Knight's Tale, he revealed that his marriage to Emma had since ended.

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After Corrie, Angela starred in The Bill, Doctors and the children's TV drama Wolfblood. She played Grace Lane, the mother of Michelle Keegan's character Lance Corporal Georgie Lane in the BBC drama Our Girl and in 2018 she played 'Scary' Sue Buchanan in hospital drama Holby City.

Michelle, who played Tina McIntyre in Coronation Street from 2008 to 2014, was among the stars congratulating Angela on her new role. She plays Gill, the mum of bully Joseph Holmes who fatally stabbed PC Saul Reeves and framed DeMarcus Westwood with a misleading video in the Channel Four soap.

Gill arrives in Hollyoaks village to defend her son as part of this harrowing knife crime storyline which has been unfolding since the spring. Angela’s first appearance as Gill in Hollyoaks was on tonight's first look episode on E4 at 7pm (Tuesday August 30) and again on Channel 4 at 6.30pm on Wednesday August 31.

Talking about joining the Channel 4 soap Angela said: “I can’t wait for the viewers to see