‘It’s a nightmare’: Coronation Street star’s dismay at serious hair loss

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One Corrie Queen to another's rescue!

When UK acting royalty and former Rovers barmaid Sally Lindsay started to suffer with perimenopause symptoms, another former Coronation Street queen, Suranne Jones, came to the rescue.

Sally, who played Shelley Unwin between 2001 and 2006, noticed a big change in her trademark golden locks as they started to thin out, leaving her with visible bald patches.

While appearing on Tom Price’s My Mate Bought a Toaster podcast, Sally explained: ‘When I started through perimenopause, which was about four years ago now, I was dead late, and all of a sudden my hair, which was always really, really thick, just went to nothing.

As she struggled with the symptoms, she turned to her former co-star and fellow superstar, Suranne Jones, who pointed her in the direction of a female doctor.

‘I went to two male doctors and then my friend Suranne Jones, she said, ‘You want to go to this doctor, Dr Naomi Potter,’ and she biked me round HRT, literally biked me it round.

‘She said, ‘You’re literally two years into perimenopause and not had any help,’ because I kept asking for help. It’s a normal story, isn’t it?

‘It’s a nightmare, the fact the doctors only get one hour’s training in their entire thing on something that happens to 51% of the population is a disgrace.’

Sally went on to talk about her preference for hiring former soap actors for her series, The Madame Blanc Mysteries, despite the prevalence of snobbery against soap stars within the acting industry, citing their toughness and preparedness.

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