CORONATION STREET REVEALS ITS STUNNING 60TH ANNIVERSARY CAST PHOTOGRAPH

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Coronation Street today (17th November) unveiled there official 60th anniversary cast photograph to celebrate the programme reaching this broadcasting milestone, and there has never been a cast image quite like it!

The shot had to be taken adhering to the Government’s health and safety guidelines for TV and film production alongside all the Covid protocols and measures introduced by the programme which meant that all of the actors in the portrait were photographed at different times.

Previous photography to celebrate Corrie’s big milestones has featured all the cast starting with the famous black and white shot to launch the first episode back in 1960.

However, with the current situation of this pandemic meaning that large gatherings are not possible, so a decision was taken to represent the show by photographing the first seven of the current cast to join the soap alongside the most recent seven actors to have appeared on screen as a regular cast member on 12 month contract at the time of the shoot.

Photo Credit: ITV
Photography by Danielle Baguley

The oldest 7 cast members: William Roache (Ken Barlow), Barbara Knox (Rita Tanner), Helen Worth (Gail Platt), Sue Nicholls (Audrey Roberts), Michael Le Vell (Kevin Webster), Sally Ann Matthews (Jenny Connor), Sally Dynevor (Sally Metcalfe).

The most recent 7 cast members: Ryan Russell (Michael Bailey), Lorna Laidlaw (Aggie Bailey), Jane Hazelgrove (Bernie Winter), Mollie Gallagher (Nina Lucas), Adam Hussain (Aadi Alahan), Tony Maudsley (George Shuttleworth), Gareth Pierce (Todd Grimshaw).

Over a period of two weeks, the actors involved were photographed individually in a Covid secure studio and then were cleverly photo shopped to give the impression of them being all together for the shoot.

Finally with a nod to the show’s history Hilda Ogden’s iconic ducks from her ‘muriel’ were added to the image, complete with wonky middle one! Don't you just love the attention to detail.

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