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Sally Ann Matthews doesn't want a Coronation Street live episode

The soap turns 60 later this year

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Sally Ann Matthews doesn't want Coronation Street to do a live episode for its 60th anniversary.

The 49-year-old actress - who first appeared on the soap as Jenny Bradley in 1986 - wants cobbles bosses to break with tradition after going live for the show's 40th and 50th milestones.

Speaking to TV Times magazine, she said: "I don't see the point in doing a live episode. It's been done."

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Sally's not keen on going live (Credit: ITV)

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She continued: "They should do something different. I'd love to have Thelma [Barlow] back - it would be fab to have Mavis and Rita (Barbara Knox) reunited."

Although there are no details on exactly what the Corrie team has planned for the anniversary celebrations this year - set to air in December - producer Iain MacLeod previously teased something "explosive".

He told metro.co.uk: "The expectation from the audience now with anniversaries isn't necessarily death and destruction, but that a spectacle is attached to it.

"We have some fairly novel ideas that we are exploring at the moment, so that should be exciting."

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Sally's been involved in some pretty explosive stories in her time (Credit: ITV)

On Friday February 7, the soap will mark its 10,000th episode, and Iain has promised viewers some "classic" Corrie.

He previously teased: "10,000 episodes! Not bad for a programme which one newspaper said in 1960 was 'doomed from the outset'.

"I am first and foremost a massive fan of the show and I watched this landmark episode with absolute glee.

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Jenny will break the terrible news to Rita her ex-husband has died in the 10,000th episode (Credit: ITV)

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"It is uniquely Corrie: funny, poignant and characterful - and a glorious homage to the comedic charabanc trips of times past, packed with strong female characters and sparkling dialogue.

"It's a really great exhibition of Coronation Street's classic qualities as we start a new decade on the cobbles."

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