It breaks my heart when I’ve been away from the baby & he just says Dadda, Dadda

got worse as I went along.” Suranne always been open about her desire ettle down and her surprise engagent came just a few months after she : “I’m still single. You don’t want to ingle for ever.” he actress has ed fellow Corrie r Jonathan ather and Eastders’ Marc nerman, and was h plumber enzo Giove for e years. fter splitting from in 2009, she said: ork a lot, I work y a lot. It’s just and the dog now.” She still worries ut how she is perceived by the public. uranne says: “I am 40 next year and husband says, ‘You wait, you’ll care your anxiety will go’. I am yet to get there and I hope it will happen but I care. And it’s such a waste of time.

“Just mulling things over, getting anxious and over-thinking things, and worrying about whether people like me or if I’ve said the right thing. I am waiting for that to lift but I am nearly 40.”

Although she’s had her fair share of dating dramas, she thinks young women have it even harder today.

Suranne, who was speaking at a Standard Issue In Conversation event alongside Stephanie Beacham and Sarah Millican on Thursday, adds that when she was in the theatre as a young actress, it was fun being in big groups, having a joke with

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boys. “Banter and the fun of being with the opposite sex – I just hope that isn’t lost completely, because we’re so aware of harassment cases and how the opposite sex should be with each other,” she says.

“I fear people don’t know how to communicate, and whether that’s because of social media I don’t know. But I just hope that isn’t lost because I remember the fun of being young and I would probably hate to be 21 now.”

Oldham-raised Suranne attended Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School in Middleton, Greater Manchester, before starting her professional career at the age of 16. She rose to fame in TV3’S Corrie in 2000 and also did modelling work. Her role as factory girl Karen, who went on to marry Steve Mcdonald, helped spark her reputation for playing strong northern women.

Banter and the fun of being with the opposite sex, I just hope it isn’t lost completely SURANNE JONES