ITV Coronation Street: Real life of Fiz Stape actress Jennie McAlpine - first soap role, own business, secret wedding and Corrie 'exit'
It would be hard to imagine Weatherfield without Fiz Stape - or Fiz Brown as she was when she arrived on the cobbles 21 years ago. She made her first appearance in the soap as a feisty teen fostered by Roy and Hayley Cropper after being neglected by her mother, Cilla Brown.