OHMYGOSSIP — Coronation Street’s Tanisha Gorey wants to become the next Ken Barlow.
The actress joined the ITV soap when she was just six years old, and she’s now determined to follow in the footsteps of Bill Roache, who has starred in the show since it first aired in 1960.
Tanisha – who plays Dev Alahan’s daughter Asha – told the ‘Conversation Street’ podcast: “I will only leave when they kick me out, 100 per cent. There’s nothing to not love, I love going to work.
“Honestly, I didn’t call it work until about two years ago. I genuinely didn’t see it as a job whatsoever. It was just something I felt so privileged to be doing.”
Bill, 89, holds the world record as the longest-serving male TV star in a continuous role, and he previously admitted that people struggle to separate his on-screen character from his real-life self.
He said: “I treat Ken as my nickname, it’s what so many people call me and that’s fine, I’ll answer to it but I’m quite clear in my head as to what’s Ken and what’s me.”
Bill enjoyed his rise to fame and conceded that life for today’s soap stars is quite different to what he experienced during his younger years.
He explained: “It was good to be known in an age when there were fewer so-called celebrities. A lot of things were open to us.”
The record-breaking actor also thinks he’s “lucky” to have remained on the hit soap for so many years.
He shared: “I’m only in the Guinness World Records because I learnt my lines, turned up on time and stuck around long enough on a ship that just keeps sailing on. I’m very lucky.”
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