{"id":87074,"date":"2025-08-23T09:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/87074\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:06:07","slug":"sue-johnston-to-reprise-her-role-in-brookside-as-shelia-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/87074\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Johnston to reprise her role in Brookside as Shelia Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a brief stint on Coronation Street, this was Johnston&#8217;s first major role on the soap, which first aired on Channel 4 in 1982.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The acclaimed actress is the first cast member to be announced as returning for the episode, which will be filmed on Brookside Close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conceived by Grange Hill and Hollyoaks creator Sir Philip Redmond, the show drew in audiences of nine million viewers at its peak before finishing on 4 November 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The show, set in Liverpool, was known for its hard-hitting storylines and took on issues like rape, bullying and incest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a brief stint on Coronation Street, this was Johnston&#8217;s first major role on the soap, which first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-87074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87074","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=87074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}