Reference: Found hereCORONATION Street icon Dame Barbara Knox has revealed soap bosses snubbed her for a decade after she joined the soap.
The actress - who plays Rita Tanner in the ITV soap - first appeared on the cobbles in December 1964 as Rita in just one episode before being brought back full-time in 1972.
Speaking at Manchester Pride where she received the Your Manchester Icon Award on stage in front of thousands, she told them how she first joined the soap - only to be snubbed for a decade after her appearance.
"I've been in rep, I'd done everything you were meant to do, I was always promised parts and I'd never got them and I'd done one thing or another, and then I got one episode in the Street.
"I did that one episode and I was convinced 'I'm in!'. But no, nothing. So I go back in rep, etc etc etc.
Barbara is second only to Ken Barlow actor Bill Roache , 91, in the age stakes on the ITV soap .
Called Barbara Knox At 90, it saw the actress look back on her career, including speaking about her very first day on Corrie .
She was trapped in the 2010 tram crash wreckage after it had derailed, causing the tram to come crashing down on the cobbles as part of the show's 50th anniversary special
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