ITV Corrie fans seeing double when Bernie Winter meets her doppleganger - and she's been in the soap before

Coronation Street viewers will be seeing double next week when Bernie Winter finds herself face to face with her doppleganger. It will be a case of double trouble for Bernie when her lookalike Fern tries to rope the cafe worker into some dodgy antics.

Corrie actress Jane Hazlegrove, who has played Gemma Winter and Paul Foreman's mum since 2019, came up with the idea of Bernie having a double after she and former Brookside and Blackadder actress Gabrielle Glaister were constantly mistaken for each other. She mentioned the possible storyline to writer Jonathan Harvey and the Bernie/Fern mirror image plot was developed with Gabrielle cast as Fern.

Jane, who previously played the role of Kathleen 'Dixie' Dixon in the BBC hospital drama Casualty, has revealed that the pair look so similar that some of their Coronation Street colleagues have even stopped Gabrielle, who played Patricia Farnham in the Channel Four soap Brookside, in the corridor to chat thinking it was her.

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She said: “I mentioned this idea to Jonathan a while ago. Gabby and I are constantly mistaken for each other with people saying they have seen one of us in something when it was the other one.

"We have often laughed about it together but then I started thinking it might be fun to have her in the show as Bernie’s secret twin or a doppelganger. I was so chuffed when they told me that they had devised this storyline and that Gabby was on board."

She added: "Shortly after I had heard that we were doing the story, I was at the Soap Awards and someone who used to work with Gabby started talking to me thinking I was her. The actor was mortified when I pointed out who