Coronation Street star, Catherine Tyldesley, who plays Eva Price in the ITV soap, has updated fans on her health as she admits you ‘need to be fit as a fiddle in our job’
Coronation Street’s Catherine Tyldesley has lifted the lid on her secret health condition after her recent return to the soap. The mum-of-two, 41, who plays feisty Rovers Return landlady, Eva Price, rocked up in Weatherfield in October after a seven-year break from the show.
After leaving Corrie in 2018, Catherine was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2019 before going on tour with the BBC show. However, in a candid chat, she admits she’s been dealing with a health condition ever since as she revealed her hormones “kind of went a bit cuckoo”. Her extreme workload spiked her hormones and caused a reaction that led to fluctuations in her weight – so much so, she says she felt like she had “given birth without having a baby”.
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Insisting she’s even more intent on prioritising her health now, she told The Sun: “Most of the time my hormones are fine, but after Strictly and doing the tour, they kind of went a bit cuckoo.
“My oestrogen can sometimes go a bit high. The hours that we work and everything. . . You’ve got to be as fit as a fiddle in our job.”
Thankfully, being back on Corrie means Catherine can be living at home with her husband, Tom Pitfield, and children, Alfie, 10, and Iris, three, full-time.
In June this year, Catherine revealed the realties of being a working mum and actress after filming The Good Ship Murder alongside Shayne Ward for Channel 5.
In a bombshell revelation, she admitted she could go for multiple days without speaking to her young children. Catherine, who found fame on Corrie, explained it is not uncommon for her to be away from the family for long periods.
Opening up about filming the popular crime show in Malta while her husband, Tom, stayed at home looking after the kids, she told the Mirror: “When I’m on set, being in Malta as much as I have been, a year-and-a-half in total if you join it all up; I’m OK, because it’s very fast paced.
“A little bit like it was on Corrie; my head is firmly in work mode. I’m somebody else, I’m not me. But it’s when I get back to that hotel in the evening and it’s silent..
“The bedtime routine, bath time, not being able sit on the bed and read Iris a book or chat to Alfie about how his day was.”
Happily, Catherine is now back in Blighty and gearing up for a bombshell episode of Corrie next week. After just weeks back on the cobbles, feisty Eva has taken over the Rovers Return and is gearing up for an eventful Christmas Day…
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