Real life of Coronation Street's Bernie Winter actress Jane Hazlegrove - Emmerdale star wife, heartbreaking loss and forgotten soap role

Bernie Winter's past is set to come back to haunt her in Coronation Street as she deals with the decline of her son Paul Foreman. As viewers of the ITV soap know, the character, played by Jane Hazlegrove, is heartbreaking witnessing the deterioration of her son following his Motor Neurone Disease diagnosis last year.

Paul discovered the heartbreaking news that he had the fatal, rapidly progressing disease that affects the brain and spinal cord, in scenes aired in April 2023. The former builder, who only discovered anything was wrong after he was accidentally knocked over by Carla Connor in her Underworld van when she had been unknowingly drugged with LSD by Stephen Reid, kept the news from his loved ones.

However, the devastating news soon came spilling out and the family have since been rallying around Paul as the symptoms of the life-limiting disease progress. Soon, Paul's dad, Denny, will come back into their lives after hearing his son is dying via a radio interview he does with Amy Barlow.

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Bernie covers her shock at coming face-to-face with Denny and makes out Paul’s already dead and the interview was a recording. But disbelieving her, Denny follows her up to the flat where Gemma and Paul are shocked to see their dad. When Denny remarks that Paul looks great for someone that’s supposedly dead, Bernie freezes in horror.

Later, Bernie lets off steam to Dev about Denny, secretly worried that Denny might blab about her past. Billy, meanwhile, reminds Paul that Denny used to knock him about when he was a kid and he’s not to be trusted but when Paul