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Gabrielle Glaister to return to Coronation Street in new doppelganger storyline

:Headline: Gabrielle Glaister to return to Coronation Street in new doppelganger storyline:
Gabrielle Glaister is confirmed to return to Coronation Street playing a new character called Fern.
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Gabrielle Glaister is to return to Coronation Street in a new role, 22 years after she last stepped foot on the cobbles.

The actress previously appeared on the soap for a nine-month stint in the year 2000, playing Debs Brownlow, the sister of Natalie Barnes (Denise Welch) who fled the street after stealing her man.

Reports over the weekend suggested that Glaister would be returning as Debs, but now it has been confirmed that she will be playing a new character called Fern Lindon.

Fern arrives as part of a plot involving Bernie (Jane Hazlegrove) after they are mistaken for one another in a shop - and realising how similar they look to each other, Fern offers Bernie a dodgy way to make some extra cash.

The storyline was inspired by Hazlegrove herself, having constantly been compared to Glaister over the years, and when she took the idea to legendary show writer Jonathan Harvey the storyline was conceived.

"I mentioned this idea to Jonathan a while ago," she said. "Gabby and I are constantly mistaken for each other with people saying they have seen one of us in something when it was the other one. We have often laughed about it together but then I started thinking it might be fun to have her in the show as Bernie's secret twin or a doppelganger.

"I was so chuffed when they told me that they had devised this storyline and that Gabby was on board.

"Shortly after I had heard that we were doing the story, I was at the Soap Awards and someone who used to work with Gabby started talking to me thinking I was her. The actor was mortified when I pointed out who I was but of course I don't mind being mistaken for Gabby, it is a huge compliment and secretly I was thinking 'that's brilliant, this storyline is going to work so well'."

Glaister added: "Jane and I have been mistaken for each other for years and years. Me constantly denying that I was in Casualty, Jane insisting that she wasn't in Brookside! Or people congratulating me on my performance in something I wasn't in because it was Jane being brilliant.

"A very good friend of mine texted me last week to say he caught a bit of Corrie and thought I was very good. I pointed out that I wasn't on screen yet!!

"When they approached me with the storyline It seemed like fate! What they've written is so clever and I'm having a ball working with Jane."

Fern will first be seen on screen in the episode airing on August 26.

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