Welch Glaister Street

Coronation Street actress Denise Welch, who plays Natalie Barnes (L) with actress Gabrielle Glaister, who will play her new screen sister Debs Brownlow in front of the Rovers Return set, Granada Television, in Manchester. * Gabrielle Glaister used to star in Brookside. The widowed landlady of the Rovers Return will have a new lease of life after the arrival of her younger sister, on 6/2/2000. 20/09/00: Denise Welch will make a dramatic exit at the end of the year after starring in the show for four years, She is expecting a baby in March but it is understood she wanted to leave the soap before she found out she was pregnant. (Photo by John Giles - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)