A gobsmacking revelation.
Corrie actress Julie Hesmondhalgh left the soap in 2013 Coronation Street icon Julie Hesmondhalgh revealed her beloved character Hayley Cropper was introduced as part of a joke storyline. And we’re just as shocked as you are! Hayley made her first appearance on the cobbles in 1998, eventually marrying Roy Cropper in 2010. In 2013, the character was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. When treatment failed, Hayley decided to end her life on her terms, dying in 2014 in Roy’s arms.
Julie Hesmondhalgh played trans character Hayley Cropper on Coronation Street ‘Roy had sort of embedded himself in the show as a popular – if slightly strange character – and he was going to have a series of disastrous dates, of which Hayley was the first. ‘The punchline of this story was that she would take him for dinner and say ‘I’m trans,’” after which Roy would consider the date to be a disaster and “disappear into the distance.
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