Coronation Street casts Brookside star Claire Sweeney as Tyrone's mum
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Coronation Street has cast Brookside star Claire Sweeney as Tyrone Dobbs' mother.
Regular Corrie viewers will know that Tyrone grew up believing his real mum was Jackie Dobbs (Margi Clarke).
However, Tyrone's research into his parentage back in 2018 led him to Evelyn Plummer, who informed him that her daughter Cassie was his biological mother.
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Not trusting Cassie to look after him properly due to her drug problem, Evelyn abandoned Tyrone at a police station in 1982. He was then discovered by Jackie, who raised him as her own.
Evelyn later told Tyrone that Cassie had died, so when Cassie shows up out of nowhere in June, Evelyn's secrets and lies threaten to destroy her relationship with her grandson.
Sweeney, who played Lindsey Corkhill on Brookside from 1991 until 2003, said of her new role in a statement: "Even though I’ve been lucky enough to have enjoyed an amazingly varied career for nearly 40 years, being cast in Coronation Street is, to me, better than being cast in a Hollywood movie!"
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The actress continued: "I’ve watched it all my life and can’t quite believe that I’ll now be stepping onto those famous cobbles myself.
"I was really nervous when I got the scripts to audition as this show means so much to me and my family and this is Corrie gold. I was beyond thrilled and very grateful when I got the call that Iain MacLeod is trusting me to play Tyrone's mum and work alongside one of my heroes, Dame Maureen Lipman.
"Cassie is a character who is definitely going to make an impact. I just hope the audience will enjoy watching her as much as I'm going to be enjoying playing her!"
Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.
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