1. Lynne Perrie attended Rotherham Girls High School after passing her 11-plus.
34 Facts About Lynne Perrie
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Lynne Perrie later abandoned her studies to concentrate on her singing career.
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In 1956, Lynne Perrie entered showbusiness professionally as a singer and comedian, after performing at the Rotherham Trade Centre and receiving a further twenty-seven bookings.
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Lynne Perrie decided to give up her factory work, and go into cabaret full-time.
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Lynne Perrie toured South Africa seven times and visited Germany, Paris, Australia and the United States.
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From 1963 to 1968, Lynne Perrie made several television appearances as a guest artiste, notably on the popular ITV Stars and Garters variety show, with Kathy Kirby, and The Good Old Days, the BBC's long-running light entertainment programme.
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Lynne Perrie made her acting debut as Mrs Casper in the 1969 film Kes, even though she had no formal acting training.
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Lynne Perrie appeared in early episodes of several popular television shows, including children's serials Follyfoot and The Intruder, long-running courtroom drama series Crown Court, and sitcom The Cuckoo Waltz.
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Eighteen episodes were made, with Lynne Perrie appearing in nine of them.
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Lynne Perrie first appeared as a minor character, but the producers were sufficiently impressed with her performance to offer her a more substantial role.
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On 5 February 1994, without consulting her Coronation Street bosses, Lynne Perrie had cosmetic surgery that involved having tissue from her backside injected into her mouth, to supposedly gain fuller lips.
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The results were unflattering, and Lynne Perrie was sacked from the show by producer Carolyn Reynolds after twenty-three years as Ivy.
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Lynne Perrie denied that she had been fired for having cosmetic surgery, claiming that she felt that her character had simply run its course and leaving was her decision.
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Lynne Perrie appeared in two television plays written by Colin Welland, who had appeared with her in Kes.
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Lynne Perrie turned down the role of Mrs Shenton in John Schlesinger's wartime romance Yanks in 1978, after she was given the option of a regular contract with Coronation Street.
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Lynne Perrie was credited simply as 'Woman at Railway Station'.
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In 1991, Lynne Perrie appeared in a celebrity edition of Family Fortunes, in a team with Gorden Kaye, Buster Merryfield, June Whitfield and Paul Shane.
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In 1994, Lynne Perrie released her controversial autobiography Secrets of The Street.
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Granada TV attempted to ban its publication, and Lynne Perrie had to attend court over the attempted injunction.
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Lynne Perrie ended the year by performing alongside John Inman in a lavish production of Mother Goose at Stockport.
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Lynne Perrie did visit Spain towards the end of the year to perform the Frank Sinatra' hit "My Way" at a televised concert.
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Lynne Perrie had decided to return to Yorkshire to live with her husband and care for her son with HIV.
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Lynne Perrie was seen walking down the aisle to marry a monkey at the altar.
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In 1997, Lynne Perrie was reunited with her screen son Christopher Quinten when both actors appeared in an episode of BBC Radio 4 sitcom Harry Hill's Fruit Corner.
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Lynne Perrie made her last television regular appearance on the ITV daytime chat show Afternoon Live before retiring.
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Lynne Perrie claimed towards the end of her life that her health was improving.
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Lynne Perrie told various journalists at the time that she was planning on making a comeback.
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Towards the end of her life, Lynne Perrie took up work as a celebrity bingo caller in Blackpool.
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Lynne Perrie made the occasional television appearance, the last of which were two entries in Channel 5's 'Greatest' countdown series, Greatest TV Soap Moments, presented by her friend Mike Reid, and Greatest Embarrassing TV Moments.
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Lynne Perrie married carpenter Derrick Barksby on 14 October 1950 and gave birth to her son Stephen John Barksby on 14 May 1951.
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Barksby chose to live alone in their Yorkshire home whilst Lynne Perrie took up residence in Salford to film Coronation Street.
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Lynne Perrie was my only child and we went through this under the spotlight of publicity.
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At various stages of her life, Lynne Perrie was addicted to tranquillisers, and suffered serious side-effects from slimming pills.
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Lynne Perrie died in Maltby, South Yorkshire aged 74, on 24 March 2006, four months after suffering a stroke.