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Published 18:17 12 Feb 2017 GMT

"I wasn’t meant to be in Coronation Street for any longer than two weeks... "The character of Hayley was originally written as a joke. It wasn’t a politically correct one, but this was back in 1998. "The joke was that Roy Cropper (David Neilson) was going to go on a series of disastrous blind dates, one of them being with a man who had transgendered to a woman."Actress Julie said that after viewers fell in love with the relationship of Roy and Hayley, they then decided to write her into the soap more.
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