Coronation Street star Julie Goodyear reveals she was nearly fired after pulling sex toy prank

Coronation Street star Julie Goodyear has revealed she was nearly fired from the series after pulling a NSFW prank on set.

The actor – who portrayed Bet Lynch in the popular soap – opened up about the incident during a recent appearance on the YouTube show Your Manchester.

Goodyear explained that she and her co-star Roy Barraclough (who had played her husband Eric Gilroy) once appeared in a bedroom scene during which he brought out a vibrator as a prank.

The actor went on to reveal that in response she pressed a button on the novelty pyjamas that she was wearing, which played the famous 1988 track “The Only Way Is Up” by Yazz.

She said: “We hadn’t been in the bed very long – only five seconds. All I could hear was buzzing. And it was the vibrator he’d got under the covers. So I thought right, ok.”

The 79-year-old continued: “The crew, everybody, were all in hysterics. So I pressed my pyjama top – it played ‘The Only Way Is Up’. It made the crew worse. We were threatened with the sack. I wish we could see it again.”

Goodyear added that bosses of the long-running soap opera scrapped the scene.

The actor first joined the ITV series as Bet in 1966, later returning in 1970 to begin a lengthy stint on the programme as the landlady of the Rovers Return pub.

Goodyear quit the series in 1995, but has made numerous cameo appearances since then.

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