Coronation Street Spoilers: Suranne Jones Says ITV Soap Told Her To Strip

Coronation Street spoilers reveal the salacious tidbit that former actress Suranne Jones claims she was told to strip down for girlie magazines after she started on the iconic sudser Corrie. According to the 41-year old mom, she was “used” by Coronation Street by being encouraged to do racy photoshoots.

In 2000 Suranne got her big break playing factory girl Karen McDonald. Her on-screen love interests included Steve McDonald. But she now says that the expectation of stripping down to her skimpies for photoshoots made her uncomfortable.

Speaking to the Give Me Strength podcast, the Doctor Foster star was frank in her assessment of her time on the cobbles.

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The actress portrayed Karen McDonald from 2000 until 2004. She now says that bagging the big role, “wasn’t what she signed up to,” and claims that, “all soaps used their girls in that way.”

Among her beef is that, “The first few months were about me being whisked off and put in a bikini in Barbados. At this time I’d only been on one holiday abroad to Spain with my mates. I was like, ‘Wow.’”

“Then I was on a celeb special for Stars In Their Eyes, then put in a magazine with a bra and knickers on. They’d give you a glass of champagne to get you a little loose.”

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“I remember thinking it was fun at first,” she said, “but I realised it wasn’t what I signed up to. I don’t think Coronation Street was alone in that. I think all of the soaps used their girls in that way.”

Suranne, starred in the BBC show Gentleman Jack last year, and remareked about the photo shoots, “There are some dodgy photos out there, there’s one in a diner where I am squirting ketchup and mustard.”

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After Jones departed Corrie in 2004 she won a Bafta for her role as Dr. Gemma Foster. But she had a scary collapse in 2018 while in the play Frozen.

The play was performed in the West End and her collapse required her to depart the megahit show.

According to Jones, “I’d done 90 shows, there were big groups of people coming to see me. The pressure got to me until I collapsed in front of an audience. I couldn’t see because my vision had gone, it was really scary.”