Corrie's Paula wants 'gypsy wedding' for Kylie

Corrie's Paula wants 'gypsy wedding' for Kylie
Corrie's Paula wants 'gypsy wedding' for Kylie (Image credit: ITV)

Coronation Street actress Paula Lane has said that she wants her character Kylie and onscreen fiance David to have a 'Big Fat Gypsy Wedding'. The 24-year-old - who plays Becky McDonald's feisty sister in the show, who has just become engaged to David Platt. And she told Reveal magazine that she thinks the pair deserve the kind of lavish nuptials seen in the recent Channel 4 show. We've not filmed the wedding yet, but in my mind I want it to be a Big Fat Gypsy Wedding," Paula said. "We're still discussing some ideas, but that's what Kylie would like. It would be so much fun to play. Would it put me off getting married in real life though? Never!" In real life Paula has been dating actor Tom Shaw for seven years - but is in no hurry to follow in Kylie's footsteps and head up the aisle. "I definitely want to have kids and get married," she said. "I've wanted to since I was younger and I've always vowed never to put my career before that. But that's changed a bit now, because I love this job, so I don't want to change anything for the next few years."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.