50? I'm going to milk it

Kym Marsh on celebrating milestone every month for a year

- ZARA ZUBEIDI

Kym Marsh is looking forward to embracing a new chapter as she prepares to celebrate her 50th birthday next year.

The former Coronation Street actress plans to go all out for the occasion in June. "I'm not horrified about turning 50. Isn't 50 the new 40?," she says.

"I'm very excited about it - I have already said I'm going to milk it for all it's worth.

"I've decided that every month for the whole year I'm going to do something to celebrate.

"I don't plan to turn 50 quietly - half a century needs celebrating."

Kym certainly has cause for celebration. As well as an impressive showbiz career spanning more than two decades, the star - who will appear in the stage adaptation of cult 90s thriller Single White Female from January - recently revealed she had become a grandmother, or "YaYa", for the fourth time after her daughter Emilie gave birth to a son on Christmas Day.

Kym shared a picture of Emilie's son Teddy and stepdaughter Polly holding their new brother Bobby alongside the caption: "Well what a wonderful Christmas gift this is!!"

And Kym loves being young enough to do "all the fun stuff" with her grandkids.