Bill claims he has bedded (and I think we all know that means "has had sex with") up to 1,000 women and that includes his Corrie co-star Pat Phoenix, who played Elsie Tanner. Thankfully there's no mention of bedding Anne Kirkbride, who plays his on-screen wife Deirdre, as otherwise that would have been A Very Wrong Thing.
The Mirror piece is worth a look because it has some wonderful old pictures from Corrie of Ken and his girlfriends with a full listing of them all too.
Among the things we didn't really want to know about the man who's been in our homes for decades as Ken Barlow, but which the Mirror reports, is that his insatiable appetite for sex earned him the nickname “C**k Roache” among other members of the Corrie cast.
Talking about his one-night stand with Pat Phoenix, Bill says: “It was just a one-off. It was just something that happened one night when we were together. We weren’t right for each other. She invited me round to her flat and we had a few drinks, then one thing led to another. At that time, she had a reputation and I had a reputation, and she felt we should meet, as it were. It just happened.”
There's more to the interview of course and I recommend you follow that link to the Mirror and have a good read.
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