Our Coronation Street fav Blanche Hunt will be given an on-screen funeral later this year.
Actress Maggie Jones, who played the Weatherfield battle-axe, died last month aged 75. The show’s producer said the soap’s cast and crew “miss Maggie greatly” and added “The character of Blanche was unforgettable and everybody loved her. She came out with the lines you couldn’t give anybody else. She was brilliant at comic one-liners.”
Blanche’s funeral will also see the return of Maggie’s granddaughter Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford), who is in prison for murder.
Blanche’s absence from screens has so far been explained by an extended break in Portugal with a friend.
