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For twenty-five years, Julie Goodyear became part of everyone's family when she played Bet Lynch, the loveable brassy barmaid of the Rovers Return in "Coronation Street". Now, at sixty-four (the age her mother was when she died), Julie feels the time is right to tell her amazing life story. After Julie's father walked out immediately after her birth, Julie was raised by her mother Alice and stepfather. Her upbringing in Manchester was impoverished but Julie coped largely through the love on her behalf spiritualist grandmother, who Julie would accompany when she was called upon by the neighborhood community to construct the dead. At just thirteen, Julie had to cope with her beloved grandmother's death when she was within a canal. Julie fell pregnant at sixteen, bringing shame and embarrassment, before marrying Ray Sutcliffe. The marriage only lasted 3 years. In 1966, Julie made a six-week appearance in Coronation Street as Bet Lynch from Elliston's Raincoat Factory, a role which made her Britain's best-loved barmaid and a cultural institution. In 1979, during a routine check-up, Julie uncovered she had cervical cancer and had two operations. At that time she was given a year to live a life. Various liaisons through the ensuing decade included Julie's first foray into a same sex relationship with her housekeeper. In 1987, Julie left Coronation Street for some time to nurse her mother Alice who was dying of terminal cancer. Julie finally quit the series on 2 October 1995 after walking away with an eternity Achievement Award at the first National Television Awards. In 1996, she was awarded an MBE. Julie's much anticipated autobiography reveals, for the very first time and with incredible candour, the truth, sadness and spirit behind this larger than life woman.
