Coro star’s secret pain ‘WHY I HAD TO LEAVE MY DREAM ROLE’
Actress Alexandra Mardell has always been quick to point out that she’s nothing like her Coronation Street character, ditzy Emma Brooker.
She’s not unlucky in love – unlike Emma, who’s lurched from one disastrous relationship to another, she’s happily engaged to actor Joe Parker – and she’s not as gullible as her character, who is often not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
But there have been a couple of parallels between her life and Emma’s that proved useful when
