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Amanda Barrie (Dominic Lipinski\/PA)<\/p>\nCoronation Street star Amanda Barrie has said she decided to come out as bisexual in her late 60s because she felt she was being \u201cdishonest\u201d.<\/p>\n
The 90-year-old actress is best known for playing Alma Sedgewick on and off for 20 years, until 2001, on the ITV soap opera.<\/p>\n
At the age of 67, she came out as bisexual in her 2002 autobiography It\u2019s Not A Rehearsal: The Autobiography \u2013 and spoke about it on television for the first time on the chat show Richard And Judy, fronted by husband and wife Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan.<\/p>\n
Amanda Barrie (Dominic Lipinski\/PA)<\/p>\n
The former Cobbles actress previously said she thought TV executives on the ITV soap would have \u201csacked\u201d her if she came out while she was on the show.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, she said she decided to come out because she felt \u201cso dishonest\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cI felt as if I was sort of cheating in some way, that although all my friends, family, anybody have always known what I was doing, which has been varied over the years, I give you that, but it felt that I couldn\u2019t be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen asked about the reaction after she came out, she said: \u201cI thought that day when I came out\u00a0I thought \u2018I should be stoned in the street, people will actually refuse to put me in a taxi. I shall be barred from Tescos.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Actress Amanda Barrie (Myung Jung Kim\/PA)<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what I thought. I just thought something ghastly would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barrie, who has been married to novelist Hilary Bonner for nearly 10 years, said \u201cabsolutely nothing\u201d happened after she came out and instead \u201cgot more of a hug than a stone thrown at me\u201d.<\/p>\n
Barrie is also known for starring in two of the famous 1960s Carry On films: Carry On Cabby and Carry On Cleo, and appeared in Celebrity Big Brother in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coronation Street star Amanda Barrie has said she decided to come out as bisexual in her late 60s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-517598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}