Sally Lindsay

(Is it OK to change "actor" to "actress"? No sexism intended, of course. Also, Sally's very much a lady of Granadaland, so it's worth pointing out where in it she was born)
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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
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== Trivia ==
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She can claim a number one single, too: at the age of 7, she was a member of the St Winifred's School Choir which had a Christmas chart-topper with "There's No One Quite Like Grandma". Sorry for reminding you of that...
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She can claim a number one single, too: at the age of seven, she was a member of the St Winifred's School Choir which had a Christmas chart-topper with "There's No One Quite Like Grandma", for which she was paid a 50p book token. Sorry for reminding you of that. Chart fans might like to know that ''Grandma'' was, in the period between 1971 and 1983 when chart compilers took a week off after Christmas, the only Christmas number one to not top the unpublished New Year chart, with John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" dipping out as a result. Somehow we can't see him complaining.
== Web links ==
== Web links ==

Current revision as of 19:59, 16 May 2024

Contents

Shows

Bigger Than... (voiceover)

Don't Stop Me Now (guest co-host)

Pointless (guest co-host)

Stars in Their Eyes (announcer)

Tenable (stand-in host)

Biography

Stockport-born actress who rose to fame playing Shelley Unwin in Coronation Street. She's also had recurring roles in, among other things, Mount Pleasant, Still Open All Hours and Scott & Bailey, as well as having been a Loose Women panellist. More recently she's played the titular amateur detective in the Channel 5 hit The Madame Blanc Mysteries.

Trivia

She can claim a number one single, too: at the age of seven, she was a member of the St Winifred's School Choir which had a Christmas chart-topper with "There's No One Quite Like Grandma", for which she was paid a 50p book token. Sorry for reminding you of that. Chart fans might like to know that Grandma was, in the period between 1971 and 1983 when chart compilers took a week off after Christmas, the only Christmas number one to not top the unpublished New Year chart, with John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" dipping out as a result. Somehow we can't see him complaining.

Web links

Wikipedia entry

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