Corrie had to scrap a storyline for Audrey after actress Sue Nicholls refused to film it

Coronation Street star Sue Nicholls has revealed that she refused to let her character be portrayed as a lonely alcoholic on the soap.

Sue was told by producers that her character Audrey Roberts was being lined up for storyline is which being alone caused her to turn to drinking at home by herself. The idea was scrapped, Sue said, after she fought back on it as she didn't like the message it sent. "Gail and the family would ask if she was lonely. I said I didn't agree," Sue told DigitalSpy.

"I asked: 'Why do you think somebody, of whatever age I was, that just because she works in the salon and goes home that she's lonely and needs to drink? Not necessarily'.

"To be honest I can't get wait to get home and plonk on the sofa, and yes pour the rosé, but it's not because I'm depressed it's because: 'How wonderful, they're all gone!'

"I tried to pitch it back to them that I didn't want to play a drunk forlorn little thing.

"It is nice that they went the other way."

Audrey may have escaped that storyline but it doesn't look like she's about to have a very nice Christmas. She's recently been reunited with old flame Lewis Archer but it's rumoured that he'll soon be discovered to be having an affair.