Corrie star Amanda Barrie says she 'would've been sacked' if she came out in 80s

Amanda refused to publicly confirm her sexuality over fears some of her co-stars would have refused to work with her for being gay.

Speaking on the Conversation Street podcast, she said: “Every week I would come up to the office. They’d go, ‘You’re coming out.’ ‘Am I?’“I spent a fortune on solicitors because believe me if that had happened to me at that time they would not have kept me in Coronation Street and I will stand by that.

“Not because of them [the producers] but because of people, who shall be nameless, who would’ve said, ‘I’m not working with her.’“What’s going on? How many are they? They’re all coming out. Why didn’t they come out when I was there? I good have had so many hooks if they’d come out. Amanda is still very proud of her time in Corrie, and she is one of the few stars to own a cobble from the famous Manchester street.

"And I got into the car and it was a cobble. It was because they’d been putting a ramp in for disabled people and went they put them back they couldn’t fit it in so there was one spare cobble and I’ve got it. I don’t know how many people have got cobbles from Coronation Street but I’ve got one and I can actually tell you exactly where it came from, from outside the corner shop.”

Although she hasn’t been on the ITV soap for 21 years, Amanda - whose character Alma died in a memorable cervical cancer storyline - still watches the show to this day.

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