{"id":23098,"date":"2025-07-25T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23098\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:08:11","slug":"coronation-street-sue-nicholls-real-age-leaves-fans-floored-after-audreys-big-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23098\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street Sue Nicholls’ real age leaves fans floored after Audrey’s big birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coronation Street’s Audrey Roberts, played by Sue Nicholls, recently celebrated a birthday on the soap and fans have been left shocked after realising the actress’ real age<\/p>\n

Coronation Street<\/a> viewers have been left stunned after discovering the actual age of Sue Nicholls, who portrays beloved character Audrey Roberts.<\/p>\n

Audrey first appeared on the cobbles back in 1979 as Gail Platt’s mum (Helen Worth), and has since become an absolute favourite amongst fans, featuring in numerous major storylines.<\/p>\n

Throughout the decades, audiences have experienced both heartache and happiness alongside Audrey, witnessing her wedding to Alf Roberts (Bryan Mosley) in 1985 and mourning his devastating passing in 1999.<\/p>\n

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Fans have also watched Audrey evolve into a great-grandmother to characters such as Bethany Platt (Lucy Fallon), whilst seeing her collaborate with grandson David Platt (Jack P Shepherd) at Audrey’s hair salon.<\/p>\n

\"SueSue has played Audrey for decades(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

More recently, she was left heartbroken when daughter Gail departed the cobbles last year following 25 years on the street, embarking on a fresh chapter in France with husband Jesse Chadwick (John Thompson), reports Leicestershire Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During this week’s episodes, Audrey marked her 85th birthday with a special meal at The Bistro, surrounded by her family including grandchildren Sarah (Tina O’Brien) and David.<\/p>\n

Yet fans have been absolutely flabbergasted upon learning actress Sue’s true age.<\/p>\n

\"CORONATIONThe character recently celebrated a big birthday(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

On a Corrie Facebook<\/a> fan page, discussing character Audrey’s recent birthday festivities, one person posted: “Aw, happy 85th birthday Audrey!”.<\/p>\n

Another fan responded: “She looks good for her age, Sue who plays her is 81 in real life.” A third viewer exclaimed: “No way!”. Meanwhile, a fourth admiring fan declared: “She’s barely aged.”<\/p>\n

\"Corrie\"Fans have shared their shock at Sue\u2019s real age<\/p>\n

Before her time on Corrie, Sue had a hidden singing career and landed her first soap role in the legendary Crossroads.<\/p>\n

In 1968, she released a track titled ‘Where Will You Be?’, which climbed to number 17 in the UK Music Charts, and it’s said that she also performed in a cabaret club in Vienna during her younger years.<\/p>\n

She became a familiar face on our telly, featuring in ‘The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin’ alongside Leonard Rossiter from 1976-1979, and as Nadia Popov in ‘Rentaghost’ from 1981-1984.<\/p>\n

Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coronation Street’s Audrey Roberts, played by Sue Nicholls, recently celebrated a birthday on the soap and fans have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[14701,2525,14704,96,14703,347,14706,14705,14702,5780,2534,14707,2526,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-23098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bryan-mosley","tag-coronation-street","tag-david-platt","tag-entertainment","tag-helen-worth","tag-itv","tag-john-thompson","tag-leonard-rossiter","tag-lucy-fallon","tag-marriage","tag-soap-operas","tag-sue-nicholls","tag-tina-obrien","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}