The actress, 73, made her arrival in the village as Mary Goskirk in 2022 and in recent months has had to deal with the news that her daughter Rhona’s (Zoe Henry) ex-husband used her frozen embryos to conceive a child with his new wife.
She’s had a lengthy battle to get custody of baby Ivy.
Prior to her most recent stint, she played Sharon Crossthwaite in the ITV soap in 1973 – and turned out to be the first ever character to be murdered on the show.