Julie Goodyear
Julie Goodyear was born in Heywood, England, United Kingdom on March 29th, 1942 and is the Soap Opera Actress. At the age of 82, Julie Goodyear biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Julie Goodyear, MBE (born Julie Kemp; 29 March 1942) is an English actress.
Bet Lynch (later Bet Gilroy) appeared on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, portraying her as her character.
She appeared in nine episodes in 1966 before becoming a series regular from 1970 to 1995.
She appeared on eight episodes in 2002 and seven in 2003.
At the 1995 National Television Awards, she received the Special Recognition Award for her work on Coronation Street.
In the 1996 New Year Honours, she was named an MBE.
Personal life
After being diagnosed with cervical cancer, she briefly left Coronation Street in 1979 for the second time, something she kept private until she recovered. She founded the Julie Goodyear Cancer Screening Centre following her ordeal with cancer.
Goodyear has been married four times. When she was two months pregnant with her son Gary, she had a shotgun wedding at the age of 17. Tony Rudman, her second husband, arrived on her wedding day. Her third marriage, in 1985, came after a long-distance friendship with American Richard Skrob. After eleven years of dating, she married Scott Brand, 26 years her junior, in 2007. There are three grandchildren in Goodyear.
Just Julie, her autobiography, was published in November 2006. She wrote about her upbringing, bisexuality, her encounter with cancer, and Coronation Street in the book.
Career
Goodyear is known for playing barmaid Bet Lynch on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She started playing the role for a brief time in 1966, but left when senior cast member Pat Phoenix (who played Elsie Tanner) advised her to get some more training. It was at that time she joined Oldham's Repertory Theatre.
Goodyear returned in 1970 and remained in the series for 25 years. She quit Coronation Street in 1995, shortly after winning the Lifetime Achievement Award for her role as Bet Lynch in the first ever National Television Awards. She returned to the role of Bet in 1999 for the home video spin-off The Rover Returns.
In 2002, Goodyear made a brief return to the series. She returned to the show again in 2003, though this time, her appearances were part of a storyline set in Blackpool that involved Liz McDonald (Beverley Callard) and her husband Jim (Charles Lawson), who had recently escaped from prison.
In 1996, she signed a deal for advertisements for Shredded Wheat. Her other work included filming a pilot of The Julie Goodyear Show for Granada, presenting Live Time on the Granada Breeze network every week day throughout January 1999, and being a DJ on Manchester Talk Radio. In 2001, she appeared in the BBC television comedy sketch series Revolver and on several episodes of the ITV1 game show Lily Savage's Blankety Blank. In 2004, she won the first series of the Living TV reality series, I'm Famous and Frightened!.
In 2005, Goodyear was one of the celebrities taking part in the ITV reality series, Celebrity Fit Club, alongside former Coronation Street co-star Ken Morley. She was originally made team captain but quit the role after six weeks, and the role was taken over by Aldo Zilli. She lost 1 stone 10 pounds, and her team won the show.
She appeared in the reality shows Road Raja, Age Swap, Celebrity Penthouse and Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes as Marlene Dietrich. She had a small role in the British film Tug of War (2006) and in October 2006 played a brief role in Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as Mrs. Temple, owner of a B&B. In October 2009, it was confirmed that she would be starring in Calendar Girls on the West End stage. She appeared in the show for three weeks before dropping out due to a virus. In December 2010, she participated in a Coronation Street special of Come Dine With Me.
In 2012, Goodyear became a housemate on the tenth series of Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 5. She was evicted on Day 22 in a double eviction alongside fellow housemate Lorenzo Borghese.