CORRIE legend Invoice Roache has landed a world file for the longest-serving cleaning soap star.
The actor, 88, has performed Ken Barlow within the ITV present since its first episode in 1960.
Corrie’s Invoice Roache has set a brand new world file for the longest-serving TV cleaning soap actor as Ken BarlowCredit score: Rex Options
Coronation Road was initially as a result of run for 13 weeks — however is the world’s longest-running cleaning soap and can mark its sixtieth anniversary on December 9.
It acquired an up to date certificates from Guinness World Information with Invoice given his personal throughout a break in filming.
He stated: “I’ve been very lucky to have been on this great programme, which has carried me into this world file and a lifetime of memories.”
Collection producer Iain MacLeod stated: “When Coronation Road, Tony Warren’s groundbreaking, visionary venture, launched in 1960, a columnist in a nationwide newspaper predicted it would not final greater than three weeks.
Invoice has performed Ken Barlow within the ITV present since its first episode in 1960Credit score: Alamy
Coronation Road is the world’s longest-running cleaning soap and can mark its sixtieth anniversary on December 9Credit score: Information Group Newspapers Ltd
“Sixty years later, I can safely say the numerous a whole bunch of folks that have labored tirelessly and dedicatedly on the present have proved that prediction staggeringly improper.
“It’s an unimaginable achievement, a testomony to Tony’s instincts as a dramatist and proof that the characters and narrative universe he designed are nonetheless as related at the moment as they had been then.
“What higher proof of this might there be than Ken Barlow, performed by the record-breaking William Roache, who was in episode one, had a starring position in episode 10,000 earlier this yr, and might be on the centre of on-screen occasions for our sixtieth anniversary episode on December ninth.
“Invoice’s is a singular, spectacular accomplishment and I heartily congratulate him for his peerless professionalism, unstinting dedication to the present and ongoing brilliance as an actor.”
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