{"id":447583,"date":"2026-02-27T00:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447583\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:33:09","slug":"coronation-street-toyah-star-georgia-taylor-floors-fans-with-real-age-looking-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447583\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street Toyah star Georgia Taylor floors fans with real age ‘looking well’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coronation Street’s Toyah Battersby star Georgia Taylor celebrated her birthday on Thursday 26 February<\/p>\n

18:05, 26 Feb 2026Updated 18:05, 26 Feb 2026<\/p>\n

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Coronation Street’s Toyah Battersby star Georgia Taylor celebrated her birthday on Thursday 26 February\u00a0(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

Coronation Street<\/a> viewers have been left floored after discovering Toyah Battersby star Georgia Taylor’s<\/a> actual age.<\/p>\n

Georgia first joined the cobbles back in 1997 as Toyah before leaving the ITV<\/a> soap in 2003. Georgia returned to Weatherfield as Toyah back in 2016, where she has been a staple ever since.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, during her break from Corrie between 2003 to 2016, Georgia appeared on Life on Mars as Denise Williams, Casualty as Ruth Winters and Law & Order: UK as Kate Barker.<\/p>\n

On Thursday 26 February, Georgia celebrated her birthday as she turned 46. Posting to Instagram<\/a>, the soap star said: “Work birthdays are the best @coronationstreet” as she revealed the cards, cakes, presents and balloons her co-stars had surprised her with.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, taking to social media, soap fans were also quick to celebrate Georgia’s birthday on a Coronation Street fan page. One person said: “HAPPY 46TH BIRTHDAY WISHES TO GEORGIA HAVE A FANTASTIC DAY.”<\/p>\n

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Coronation Street viewers have been left floored after discovering Toyah Battersby star Georgia Taylor’s actual age(Image: Instagram )<\/p>\n

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To which a different account replied: “Wow 46 looking well, share my birthday”, a different fan wrote: “She doesn\u2019t look that age! Pretty Lady!”, another follower said: “Happy Birthday beautiful lady” while another account added: “Happy birthday Georgia beautiful lady and a great actress.”<\/p>\n

It comes as Coronation Street fans were left gobsmacked after learning Georgia Taylor’s real name during a chat on the On the Sofa podcast last summer.<\/p>\n

During a discussion about filming a Corrie scene with Georgia, podcast host Ben Price<\/a>, who plays Nick Tilsley, sparked confusion when he referred to the actress as Claire.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the footage, one Corrie enthusiast remarked, “Who’s Claire? Toyah is played by Georgia Taylor<\/a>.” A second clarified: “Her real name is Claire x”, whilst a third exclaimed: “I had absolutely no idea!”<\/p>\n

\"Georgia<\/p>\n

Georgia first joined the cobbles back in 1997 as Toyah before leaving the ITV soap in 2003(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

Toyah actress Georgia was born Claire Jackson but altered her name due to its commonality when she joined the ITV soap in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n

She previously revealed to the Mirror<\/a>: “It’s not that I planned this to happen. But when I started with Coronation Street I had to register with Equity, the actors’ union, and at the time there seemed to be a hell of a lot of Claires so I had to think of something else.”<\/p>\n

Georgia added: “I couldn’t tell you where I got Georgia from, other than I liked it, but my grandad’s surname was Taylor and he passed away not long before I got the part.”<\/p>\n

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Coronation Street airs Monday to Friday at 8:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coronation Street’s Toyah Battersby star Georgia Taylor celebrated her birthday on Thursday 26 February 18:05, 26 Feb 2026Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2525,96,148241,2534,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-447583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-coronation-street","tag-entertainment","tag-georgia-taylor","tag-soap-operas","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447583","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=447583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}