Corrie producer Stuart Blackburn said in his bit to camera that Gail had been brought into Corrie as a friend for Suzie Birchall.
(Actually he was wrong. As our blogger Graeme points out on twitter, Gail was brought in to Corrie as a friend for Tricia Hopkins, played by Kathy Jones. Kathy, via twitter, thanked Graeme for this reminder).
And then Stuart Blackburn said: "And who, but die-hard Corrie fans, remembers Suzie Birchall?"
Well, if that's his definition of being a hard-core Corrie fan, then I'm proud to be one. Proud. Suzie Birchall is something of a goddess in our house, fondly remembered. She was feisty in the proper meaning of the word, assertive and forthright, of a type that has rarely been seen on Corrie since, and there's few characters that can hold a candle to her.
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