It comes after the actress returned to the ITV soap last year in the role of Eva Price after seven years away
Coronation Street star Catherine Tyldesley has been seen hailing her ‘amazing’ castmate who she predicts is going to go on to be a ‘big star’.
The actress returned to the ITV soap last year in the role of Eva Price after seven years away, with her previously saying that the move “felt right”.
Fans will recall that Eva left Weatherfield to start a new life in France, but she is now returning as landlady of the Rovers Return – and Catherine admitted how she thought her comeback would be limited to a “funeral” sequence and was delighted to find out soap bosses wanted her back full-time.
And it was in October that viewers saw Eva heading back to Weatherfield with her daughter, Susie Price, and her new partner, Ben Driscoll, after he bought the Rovers Return for her the family, which includes his two sons, Ollie, and Will, to run. However, he failed to mention that his mother, Maggie, had to bail him out with the money to buy the boozer, and she was soon seen moving in with them too.
And it was the actress behind Susie, who was seen on-screen for the first time since she appeared as a newborn baby, who Catherine was praising as she took part in an interview with Inside Soap which was published alongside a Mother’s Day themed photoshoot alongside Aurora Bradshaw, who plays the youngster.
Asked by the publication what it is like working with Aurora, Catherine said: “We just clicked straight away. She’s amazing. She’s just so gorgeous and professional. I’d already met her mum at the chemistry test, and we got on like a house on fire. We all met up outside of work so Aurora could meet my kids and spend some time together in the park, so she could get used to me.”
She added: “I wanted her to feel comfortable when we started. She always knows her lines and she’s always so well-rehearsed. She really loves being here and she’s an absolute dream!”
Corrie fans will recall that Eva gave birth to her and Aidan Connor’s daughter in April 2018 in a cottage where she was staying to hide the pregnancy. She handed her newborn daughter over to Toyah Battersby and the baby was named Susie after Peter’s late sister, Susan Barlow. Eva registered her daughter as ‘Susie Price’ immediately after her birth.
But Toyah created a fake birth certificate saying that Jacqui was Susie’s mother and Peter was her father as well as her name being ‘Susie Barlow’ so Peter wouldn’t suspect anything. Eventually, the truth came tumbling out following the tragic death of Aidan and convinced that his son would not have taken his life if he had known the truth about his little girl, Aidan’s father Jonny Connor decided to fight for custody.
Not wanting Eva to flee the country with the baby, Eva’s ex-boyfriend Adam Barlow, who Aidan originally believed was the father of the baby, decided to make a fake DNA test to show Johnny that he was in fact Susie’s biological father and Eva eventually left the cobbles behind when Susie was just a few months old.
Also asked if Aurora is as sassy as viewers have found Susie to be, Catherine revealed: “Absolutely! Susie Price is another level of sass, but Aurora is older than her years. I’m really good at predicting stars of the future and to me, she’s gonna be a big star. She really wants it and she puts so much time and energy into bringing Susie to life. It’s a real joy to see such a brilliant work ethic in somebody so young.”
Meanwhile, some Corrie fans may not know that Susie actress Aurora Bradshaw isn’t the only one in her family starring in the soap. Her older brother, Bobby is best known for playing Jake Windass, the son of Gary Windass and Izzy Armstrong. The character was born after the former couple used a surrogate, Tina McIntyre, to conceive due to Izzy’s health problems.
Jake’s parents have since separated, but do share joint custody but Jake lives with Gary, his wife Maria Connor, and stepbrother Liam at 5 Victoria Court. The youngster was originally played by twins Harley and Layton Phoenix from 2013 to 2015, before Seth and Theo Wild took over in 2016 until 2018, which was then when Bobby took over.