I almost gave up on acting... then I got the call from Corrie

Amy loves undertaker romance

- BY CHRISTINE SMITH

CORRIE'S Amy Robbins, who feared her career was dead, is now snogging the undertaker who buried her screen husband.

Amy, 54, thought it was curtains for her cobbles stint as Christina Boyd when Charlotte Jordan, who plays her daughter barmaid Daisy Midgeley, quit in May.

But this week viewers will see Christina enjoy her first kiss with funeral director George Shuttleworth, played by Tony Maudsley.

Amy, who joined Coronation Street in January, says: "When Charlotte said she was leaving, I had completely resigned myself to the fact my character wouldn't have any use any more.

"I finished filming the storyline in the spring and I was on the brink of giving up acting. I'd had such a great time, but there aren't that many parts for women my age.

ROMANCE

"I started to think about other things I could do. My youngest daughter had left for uni and my husband (actor Bob Daws) and I were downsizing. I'd started to consider a simpler life."

Instead Christina, who plotted with Daisy to con Jenny Connor out of £60,000, became a full-time character with a death and a romance thrown in.

She says: "I got the call from Corrie in the summer saying they wanted to bring back Christina. Fate said, 'Do you want to do this?"