Julie Goodyear
| Julie Goodyear MBE |
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|---|---|
| Born |
Julie Kemp 29 March 1942 Bury, Lancashire, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Spouse(s) | Ray Sutcliffe (m. 1960; div. 1963) Tony Rudman (m. 1973; ann. 1974) Richard Skrob (m. 1985; wid. 1987) Scott Brand (m. 2007–present) |
Julie Goodyear, MBE (born Julie Kemp; 29 March 1942) is an English television actress and media personality. She is known for playing pub landlady Bet Lynch (later Bet Gilroy) on British soap opera Coronation Street.
Goodyear first appeared as Bet Lynch for nine episodes in 1966, before becoming a series regular for twenty-five years from 1970 to 1995. She returned for eight episodes in 2002 and another seven in 2003. For her role on Coronation Street, she received the Special Recognition Award at the 1995 National Television Awards. She was made an MBE in the 1996 New Year Honours.
Goodyear was born in Bury, Greater Manchester, to George and Alice Kemp, who divorced when Goodyear was six years old. Alice later married Bill Goodyear, from whom Julie received her surname. Goodyear was raised by her grandmother, who later died when Goodyear was thirteen years old. Her grandmother had been missing but her body was later found in a canal. Goodyear has stated that she often felt her grandmother's spirit with her. While in her teens, her parents became publicans at a bar called The Bay Horse. She attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (now St Anne's Academy) in Middleton.
Her autobiography entitled Just Julie was released on 3 November 2006, in which she discussed her relationships with men and women. Goodyear is said to smoke 40 cigarettes-a-day
Among her partners was the late Justin Fashanu, a bisexual footballer who played for clubs including Norwich City and Nottingham Forest, who was nearly 20 years her junior. They were together for a time in the early 1990s, several years before Fashanu committed suicide.
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