Corrie is bringing back Nigel Havers and Rula Lenska

From Digital Spy

It sounds like Audrey Roberts is going to have a very busy summer on Coronation Street.

Audrey (Sue Nicholls) will be at the centre of two separate comedic storylines over the summer months that will bring back former Corrie cast members Nigel Havers and Rula Lenska, a spokesperson for the show has told Digital Spy.

Havers memorably played Audrey's on-off lover Lewis Archer in two previous stints, having most recently gone on the run to Belize to escape the law. We imagine any reappearance on the cobbles will cause trouble for Audrey and Gail Platt (Helen Worth).

Rula Lenska will be reprising her role as salon owner Claudia Colby, whose friendship with Audrey went south when both became romantically involved with the same man. Lenska's soap experience also includes playing Frank Butcher's girlfriend Krystle in a 2002 EastEnders special.

(Rula Lenska)

A return to the cobbles for Nigel Havers is coming a year after he very publicly campaigned to reprise his role as conman Lewis Archer on the long-running ITV soap.

"I would love to [return], actually," he said on Piers Morgan's Life Stories. "I do owe [character] Gail 40 grand at the moment and I think as an honourable man, I'd like to pay that back. It was wonderful doing the show."

The ITV soap is currently building up to the departures of both Aidan Connor (Shayne Ward) and Eva Price (Catherine Tyldesley), while the Pat Phelan (Connor McIntyre) murder spree is expected to come to a head this year as well.

Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7.30pm and 8.30pm on ITV.

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