Ed Sheeran gets snug in the Rovers Return

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Ed Sheeran has rocked out the Rovers Return with a live gig on the Coronation Street set.

The chart-topping musician treated Coronation Street stars old and new to a performance to celebrate Manchester radio station Key 103's 40th anniversary.

Soap stars including Brooke Vincent, Jennie McAlpine, Katie McGlynn and Tina O'Brien posed for pictures with Ed on the set of the Rovers Return pub, before he performed in Carla Connor's living room at Granada Studios, the old Coronation Street set which is now open to the public.

Ed performed a 40-minute set while cast members watched from Gail Platt's living room.

Jennie, who plays Fiz Stape, tweeted afterwards: "Wonderfully strange to be back at our old @itvcorrie home tonight. Left a note. #nostalgia."

 

 

 

Patrick McLennan
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.