Kate Kelly: 'My real sis may be my Corrie sister!'

Kate Kelly: 'My real sis may be my Corrie sister!' (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Coronation Street star Katherine Kelly says her character Becky McDonald is getting a step-sister in the ITV1 soap, who may be played by her real-life sister Grace! Katherine told whatsontv.co.uk at the British Soap Awards on Saturday night: "It's very exciting, she's going to get a sister, which is an exclusive. Very, very soon a half-sister is going to come into her life. "They are interested in my sister (Grace). She is the prefect age and she's a cracking actress and she is my sister, so she looks just like me. But she's in LA at drama school, so... I don't know if it will work." Watch the full interview with Katherine Kelly

*The British Soap Awards screen in full on ITV1 on Wednesday, May 19 at 8pm

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