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Article: THE ODD COUPLE! As transsexual Hayley Patterson, actress Julie Hesmondalgh has won the hearts of the nation in Coronation Street. GRAHAM YOUNG, the Mail's Mr Telly, meets the actress who has achieved the impossible.
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- November 7, 1998
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IT'S the most unlikely story ever seen in Weatherfield - but
actress Julie Hesmondalgh has pulled off the arrival of a
transsexual
in Coronation Street brilliantly.
Even transsexuals themselves, worried about an actor taking the
part instead of someone who has experienced the transition for real,
have fallen for the determination, charm and sheer humanity of
Hayley
Patterson.
When the planned storyline inevitably hit the headlines, they
thought that Coronation Street would play it for laughs. Instead,
like all viewers, they have been moved virtually to tears by her
unlikely relationship with Roy Cropper, a near middle-agedvi rgin
who
found it almost impossible to get close to anybody.
Julie, ...