Coronation Street's Jodie Prenger on bizarre moment she was shot with a BB gun
ok.co.ukJodie Prenger might be storming screens on Coronation Street as Rovers Return barmaid Glenda Shuttleworth - who is currently suing her brother George as they feud over their dad’s will - but her real life is just as chaotic as any situation her character might find herself in.The 45 year old joined the show two years ago – fulfilling a lifelong dream to work on the cobbles - but she first rose to fame in the BBC talent show I'd Do Anything in 2008.
In recent years she has starred on the West End stage, but until then Jodie spent 10 years trying to make it as a singer on the club and cabaret circuit, while working as a nail technician to make ends meet.
And that's where some of her most bizarre moments happened. Back then her life was far from glamorous, Jodie revealed: “I got changed in many a toilet because they didn’t have a dressing room and I dried my hair under the hand-drier before going on to stage. “I walked into one club and it smelt of wee.
At another they were still throwing darts on the stage while I was trying to set up. At one booking in Wales, I was the support act for Joe Pasquale, but then you’d have to go to this other venue and there were kids with BB guns firing at you while you were singing!".
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