Antony Cotton

By Sarah BullEmotional: Sally Lindsay and Antony Cotton looked overcome with emotion as they left the church following Betty Driver's funeral todayShe was undoubtedly one of the most well-known actresses ever to have appeared on Coronation Street, and starred as barmaid Betty Williams (Turpin) for an astonishing 42 years.So it's no wonder that many of Betty Driver's former colleagues struggled to contain their emotions at the actress' funeral in Manchester today.Sally Lindsay, Julie Goodyear...Read Full Story

Antony Cotton and his mum are taking part in a Mother's Day edition of the ITV1 quiz show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? The actor, who plays Sean Tully on Coronation Street, will appear with his mum actress Enid Dunn on the live special edition of the quiz show on Sunday. Antony will be competing for charity when he and his mum face question master Chris Tarrant. Antony said: " I am excited and terrified in equal measure." The show will be screened at 8.30pm. Follow the Coronation...Read Full Story

It's National Doodle Day on Friday 2 March 2012 and celebrities have been putting pen and pencil to paper to doodle their doings. Doodles will be auctioned online on eBay from Friday next week and include three by Corrie cast members, past and present. You can view doodles by William Roache (Ken Barlow) here and Liz Dawn (Vera Duckworth) here. On the right here is the doodle by Antony Cotton (Sean Tully). National Doodle Day raises money to support the work of Epilepsy Action.  National...Read Full Story

This subject of this post came to my attention from Coronation Street Blog fan Monica.  She wanted to know why the Corrie writers have taken once great female characters and have sullied them with less than savoury personality changes.  Now, of course, Corrie is a drama but it does try to mirror realistic character portrayals.  All of us have ups and downs in life and are far from being one-dimensional.  We can all be nice, nasty, naughty and neat!  However, some of our once favourite female...Read Full Story

Now, probably anyone who knows me knows that I adore Antony Cotton. I was 15 when Queer As Folk first aired, and taped it religiously, and absolutely loved Antony's character Alexander, the very camp, very loud, very Northern character who arrived back from Japan with a "boyfriend" - who turned out to be a rent boy. But Alexander was also estranged from his parents, and was later disinherited by his mother after his father's death, which gave an extra dimension to the character - and which...Read Full Story