Coronation Street star Sally Dynevor ready to rebel at 50 after cancer battle

By LIZ THOMAS



Age is just a number: Sally Dynevor dons a leather biker jacket for a photoshoot



Coronation Street star Sally Dynevor is the first to admit she’s always been a bit of a goody two-shoes in real life.

But her very public battle with breast cancer has left the soap icon in a different frame of mind as she approaches 50.

In a frank interview, the actress says she’s fighting back to fitness and now it’s time to do something ‘naughty’.



‘I feel as though I’m starting to enter a new time in my life,’ she said. ‘I’m really excited about the future.

‘As I get older I want to break the rules and be a bit rebellious. I’ve been so good for such a long time I just want to do something naughty. I want to do as much as I can. I just want to fill every minute of every day.’





Cancer fight: Sally had months of therapy



Mrs Dynevor, who plays Sally Webster, was diagnosed with cancer after a Coronation Street plotline – in which her character developed the disease – inspired her to check her own breasts.

In November last year she began a gruelling course of chemotherapy which led to her losing her hair.

‘I’ve learnt that whatever happens to us, it’s just life’s path,’ she said. ‘So many people go through breast cancer. I’m not the only one, there are thousands. But it gave me great comfort to talk to other women going through the same thing.’

The mother-of-three confessed that she now wanted to try a backpacking holiday or working in New York as a waitress.

She told Woman magazine: ‘I was talking to some of the Corrie girls and we all said 50 is the new 40, isn’t it?



‘Fifty-year-olds now aren’t dressing like my mother’s generation did. I still want to be wearing a leather jacket and skinny jeans. Being 50 is just a number and it’s about how you feel in your head. I’m sure there are exciting times to come.’

Mrs Dynevor, who was previously known as Sally Whittaker, has said that the ITV soap could potentially have saved her life because it was only the storyline that caused her to check herself and find a lump.

The early diagnosis gave her a better chance at beating the disease.



‘There are times when I see something and think, “I’d really like to be doing that”, but the reality is I wouldn’t get home at night to put my kids to bed. Corrie suits my life and that’s why I’ve stayed so long.’

Alongside her latest interview she posed in a daytime biker jacket and figure-hugging trousers to illustrate how she is beginning to get her life back to normal.



source: dailymail