‘KILL ME OFF’ Katie’s Coro sacrifice
‘I wanted to get women going for their smears because it felt like the Jade Goody effect had gone’
There aren’t many people who would go to their boss with the sole intention of talking themselves out of a job. But that’s exactly what Katie McGlynn did when she asked the producers of Coronation Street to kill her off.
The result was her recent cervical cancer storyline, where viewers saw Katie’s character Sinead Osbourne die following a year-long battle with the illness in some of the bravest and most heartbreaking scenes the Street has ever shot.
“When they first told me about the story, they weren’t sure if it was going to be terminal,” Katie (26) tells.
“But I said, ‘I think she should die.’ I said that knowing it would mean I didn’t have a job. But I wanted to show real life. There’s not always a fairytale ending and people do
