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Coronation Street favourite Sue Nicholls has admitted that she would be lost if her character Audrey Roberts was killed in the soap's anniversary episodes.

A number of the show's much-loved characters will die next week as an explosionrocks The Joinery and causes a tram to crash onto the cobbles.

The disaster takes place in a double bill on Monday night, before the action continues in five more episodes across the week - including a live transmission on Thursday, December 9.

Speaking to The Mirror, Nicholls confessed: "I've enjoyed Coronation Street so much that if you find me under a brick in the live episode, I don't know what I'd do. I've been so happy here - this is my life."

Reflecting on her long-running stint in Weatherfield, she said: "My favourite period playing Audrey was those early days when she was this wayward, rather flighty character. 

"I'm not sure how close that was to me - Audrey laid her head where the next gin and tonic came from, now I wasn't that bad! But like her, I did a lot of clubbing and dancing in my youth, I did drink G&T and Audrey liked the men and so did I. So I could identify with her."

Nicholls has played the role of Audrey on and off since 1979.