Denise Welch

At 66 years old, Denise Welch has this physical status:

Denise Welch, an English actress and television actress, was born in 1958.

Natalie Barnes appeared in Coronation Street (1997–2000) and Steph Haydock in Waterloo Road (2006–2010).

She is also known for her appearances on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women from 2005 to 2013.

In 2018, she returned to the series. Welch's other acting appearances include those in television dramas (1991–1993), Soldier, Soldier (1993–1995), and Down to Earth (2004–2005).

She appeared on Dancing on Ice in 2011, where she was partnered with professional skater Matt Evers, and she captured the ninth series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2012.

Truvy appeared in the play Steel Magnolias' UK touring production in 2012.

Early life

Denise Welch, born in Tynemouth, North Tyneside, on May 22, 1958. Debbie is Debbie's younger sister. Welch attended Bygate School in Whitley Bay and La Sagesse School in Newcastle upon Tyne, before transferring to Ebchester, County Durham, where she completed five GCE exams. After being cast in a school production of Finian's Rainbow, she discovered a penchant for acting at the age of 14. At the age of 17, she considered enrolling in a teaching college in Crewe; however, her father and her drama instructor encouraged her to apply to the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Welch was a success in her application and graduated in 1979, earning her Equity Card while teaching dance at the Watford Palace Theatre.

Personal life

Welch is a British artist who lives in Cheshire. Welch's first marriage was to actor David Easter, from 1983 to 1988; she has since stated that she committed adultery. Welch and Tim Healy met when they were interning for Newcastle's Live Theatre Company together. Matthew Healy (born 8 April 1989, Hendon, London) and Louis Vincent (born 2 March 2001, Salford) married in Haringey, London, and have two children: Matthew Healy (born 8 April 1989, Hendon, London), who is a member of the alternative rock band The 1975 and Louis Vincent (born 2 March 2001, Salford) and Louis Vincent (born 2 March 2001, Salford).

On February 6, 2012, Welch announced that she and Healy were no longer together and that they had been together for a long time. Welch revealed that she was dating Lincoln Townley, her public relations manager, just a few weeks after. It was revealed that she and Townley were engaged in August 2012. They married in Portugal on July 13, 2013.

Welch admitted that her marriage was almost destroyed as a result of her mental disorder as well as an affair during her depression. She attended Alcoholics Anonymous with the support of her late Coronation Street co-star Kevin Kennedy, who says it helped her to avoid alcohol use. Pulling Myself Together, her 320-page autobiography, was published in April 2010, in which she describes how she conquered her alcohol, heroin, and depression problems. It became the UK's best-seller.

In a February 2015 interview, she said she was "freer from my mental illness in my 50s than I did in my 30s and 40s." Welch revealed in April 2017 that she favors Women's Equality Party candidate Tabitha Morton in the Liverpool City Region mayoral election.

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Career

After leaving school at the age of 12, Welch became an actress in a straight manner. She appeared on stage in Yakkety-Yak with the McGann brothers in 1983 and later joined the Live Theatre Company, Newcastle, where she appeared in many productions, including There's a Girl in My Soup and an Alan Ayckbourn quartet of plays, including Bedroom Farce. Sandy appeared in the musical Grease at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, in 1984.

In 1981, she made her first television appearance in the Tyne Tees Television Production Barriers. She appeared in ITV's hit drama On Wiedersehen, Pet (1986), the Catherine Cookson version (1990–1991), and in BBC's Spender (1991–1993).

When Welch was cast as Marsha Stubbs in ITV's drama series Soldier Soldier, she became a household name. She began a double-A side single in 1995, titled "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (a cover of Dusty Springfield's hit) which reached number 23 in the UK Singles Chart, leading to her popularity in the series.

Welch was insecure in 1997, when she appeared as Natalie Horrocks in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street. Natalie was introduced as a divorcee who was soon to become Kevin Webster's mistress, played by Michael Le Vell), the husband of Sally Webster. Kevin and Sally were one of the show's longest-running couples, and they had two children. Natalie rose to honor by becoming the landlady of the soap's most popular public house, The Rovers Return, from the femme fatale. The Coronation Street producers had hoped that Welch would perform a storyline involving Natalie's miscarriage in 2000, but she declined, claiming that the character had already lost her husband and son. However, Welch, who was expecting a baby the same year, decided against continuing the serial. "I am looking forward to being a mother again and spending some time with my children," Welch expressed, "I am relishing the prospect of new challenges in my work." "The name [Natalie] will be lost as she goes to somewhere new," a Granada TV spokeswoman said. We wish Denise well both for her baby's birth and for her future.

Welch guest starred in Where the Heart Is and the BBC's hospital drama Holby City in 2002, playing risk manager Pam McGrath, who had an on-screen relationship with the character Mubbs Hussein (played by Ian Aspinall). She appeared in ITV's long-running police drama The Bill (in 1997 and 2006), Down to Earth (2004–2005), and Born and Bred (2002–2003). In the City (2006), Welch appeared (with second billing) in the British film The Jealous God (2005) and Hollyoaks: Between other appearances. Janet "Goldie" Gold played in an episode entitled "Rogue" of the long-running medical drama series Casualty from 2006 to 2010. She appeared as French teacher Steph Haydock in the hit BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road from 2006 to 2010, and appeared as Janet "Goldie" Gold.

Welch's original role in Bad Girls was won but she had to cancel due to sickness at the time; her future Waterloo Road co-star Eva Pope took the lead. Welch left Waterloo Road without planning to return for Series six, but we did come back for episodes nine and ten.

Welch will be included in Benidorm's Series 4 on YouTube, according to Benidorm's Twitter feed. She appeared on 'Scary' Mary' alongside her then-husband, Tim Healy.

Welch played Truvy in the touring production of Steel Magnolias in 2012. She appeared in Richard Bean's Smack Family Robinson at the Rose Theatre in Kingston the next year.

Welch will be seen in EastEnders as Alison Slater, Kyle Slater's estranged mother (Riley Carter Millington) and Stacey Slater's mysterious stepmother (Lacey Turner) on March 25, 2016. Welch said, "I'm so thrilled to be part of such a legendary show; it's so thrilling!" I have several friends who attend the festival, and I can't wait to get off, so I can't wait to get going. It's a short time, but it's a good one, and I'm excited to be able to continue doing this." Fans applauded her appearance and demanded that she be given a permanent role in the soap on May 3rd. Welch made her debut as Alison on May 3rd.

In the romantic comedy film Finding Fatimah, Welch appeared as Valerie. Welch appeared in Black Eyed Susan, alongside son Louis, a short film that details Welch's own experience with depression. At that year's Silicon Beach Film Awards, the film received the Best Drama Award.

Welch will appear in Celia in the UK tour production of Calendar Girls: The Musical in January 2018.

Doll Belvedere appeared in the online series Dun Breedin in May 2020, written by and starring Julie Graham, Alison Newman, Tracy-Ann Oberman, and Tamzin Outhwaite. Welch's scenes were shot in her own house, and her husband, Lincoln Townley, appeared in the film as Doll's husband Zoot, due to the lockdown imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Welch has appeared in numerous television shows as well as in a series of SCS advertisements promoting soft furnishings. In 2000 and Soap Fever for ITV2, she produced her own DIY show The Real DIY Showdown. She appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank in 2001. She has been a regular panelist on ITV's nationally syndicated lunchtime chat show Loose Women since 2005. In 1999, she appeared as Petula Clark in ITV's celebrity singing competition Stars in Their Eyes.

In 1999, she was pleasantly surprised by Michael Aspel at Piccadilly Station in Manchester, when she was introduced to This Is Your Life.

Welch and Falklands War hero Simon Weston appeared on a Hollywood version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2008. Welch was appointed narrator of Channel 4's redesigned series 10 Years Younger in 2009. She appeared in Playing the Part, a BBC One documentary, on May 21, 2009. She then returned to her old secondary school, Conception Community Sports College, and worked there for a week.

Welch, a Newcastle-based children's charity, shows her support for the children's charity Children North East by attending performances and assisting community-based charities. Welch appeared on ITV's All Star Mr & Mrs in April 2010 and donated £5,000 to Children North East. She also appears in Sammy's biannual benefit concert on Sunday, dubbed "Slack Lasses" by the show Loose Women.

In November 2010, Welch's guest appeared on the ITV Breakfast program Lorraine. Welch's skating partner, American professional ice skater Matt Evers, appeared in the sixth series of Dancing on Ice on ITV, beginning with her skating partner, Zöe Salmon and Heather Mills in previous seasons. On the eighth week of the show, which was broadcast on March 6, 2011, she and Evers became the seventh couple to be disqualified after losing the skate-off to army soldier Johnson Beharry.

Welch, a housemate in Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, appeared in January 2012. She went on to win the series by defeating Frankie Cocozza in the final and pushing him to victory.

She appeared on the ITV dancing competition Stepping Out with husband Lincoln Townley in 2013.

Welch is said to have "walked out" of Loose Women in October 2013, owing to differences with Helen Warner, the current head of ITV. In June 2018, she returned to the show for the second time.

She appeared on Through the Keyhole, hosted by Keith Lemon in 2013.

Welch claimed in an interview with Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford on This Morning that the media and the authorities are "fear-mongering" over the COVID-19 pandemic. On Twitter, she and Piers Morgan differed on COVID-19 infection rates. After her appearance on This Morning, Morgan called her "deluded" and "dangerous."

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