On screen we've seen her blissfully happy in a relationship with a man 19 years her junior and away from the cobbles, Sally Ann Matthews is clearly just as young at heart.
For while her favourite way of spending a Saturday night is still putting her feet up and watching TV at home, she can't resist a quick twirl around the dance floor when she gets the chance.
"In my head I'm Beyoncé, but in reality, I'm really not!" she laughs.
"Recently I was up on the dance floor at a party and the next day someone sent me a video of it.
"I thought I was dancing really sexily - I'm still 21 in my head - but actually I was doing 'mum' dancing! "But it doesn't matter.
We shouldn't be defined or constrained by what other people think of us. And now I'm in my 50s I worry a lot less.
"In my 20s I'd be like, 'I don't give a damn what you think!' when I did actually care, whereas now I genuinely really don't."
Sally Ann (51) has played Rovers Return landlady Jenny Connor since 2015, after originally portraying her as a teenager from 1986 to 1991. In between she was a successful jobbing actress.
Coping with rejection at auditions is one of the harder parts of the job, but Sally Ann quickly realised there was no point taking it personally.
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