Katie McGlynn has urged her fans to go for their smear tests after her \'Coronation Street\' character was laid to rest last night (18.11.19).
The cobbles star bowed out of the soap after nearly seven years in Weatherfield when her alter-ego Sinead Osbourne lost her battle with cervical cancer, and the 26-year-old actress has thanked her "stunning" co-stars for their work on the emotional plot.
She wrote: RIP Sinead Tinker... for nearly 7 years you\'ve been apart of my life walking the cobbles of @itvcorrie - thank you to everyone for the support and a hats off to all of my co stars who have been STUNNING throughout this storyline ...and remember, GO FOR YOUR SMEARS! #sinead (sic)"
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Katie recently admitted playing a cancer victim has really made her "appreciate the small things in life".
She wrote on Twitter: "Sinead feeling the rain for the last time has really made me appreciate the small things in life that we all take for granted
"Your beautiful messages mean everything..I wouldn\'t be able to watch Sinead\'s final days if it wasn\'t for the support of every single one of you ..I\'m going to miss Sinead Tinker so much, but I am so humbled to hear we\'re doing this storyline justice (sic)"
Katie also admits it has been a "privilege" to have played out the cervical cancer story, and she feels "relieved" to have taken on the plot.
She said: "I felt like we have a privilege having a platform like Coronation Street to portray real life.
"People are dying from cancer, life isn\'t a fairytale, if we hadn\'t of gone all the way through, it wouldn\'t have made as much of an impact.
"I\'m so relieved we\'ve done this storyline."
3 April 2026 - 5:52 AM
