Morrissey wrote an episode of Coronation Street
Coronation Street star Sally Dynevor has revealed that Morrissey handed the soap's bosses his idea for an episode.
Morrissey wrote an episode of Coronation Street.
The Smiths frontman-and-lyricist took a tour of Weatherfield - the fictional town based in Salford, Greater Manchester, where the hit ITV soap is set - with show star Sally Dynevor, and he handed in his script for an episode under a "pseudonym" to the show's producers.
However, they cannot find Morrissey's episode idea, and Sally - who has played Sally Metcalfe in Coronation Street since 1986 - has not heard from the singer since she took him around the soap's set.
Appearing on a recent episode of the Making a Scene podcast, Sally, 62, revealed to hosts Matt Lucas, 51, and David Walliams: "One day, I was in a health food shop near where I live, and who taps me on the shoulder? but Morrissey.
"And [he] says, 'Sally, I love Coronation Street. I'd love to come and look around the set, and I'd love you to show me around.'
"So I said, 'OK.'
"So a couple of days later, he came to my flat, I made him a cup of herbal tea, and a piece of fruit cake. And then I took him around Coronation Street, and he'd written an episode for Coronation Street."
Laughing, David, 54, chimed in: "He's such an eccentric character!"
Sally continued: "And [he] handed it in under a pseudonym, and I never heard from him again."
David quipped: "No, that's quite Morrissey."
Like Sally, the comedian really wants to find out what the episode, penned by the 66-year-old Well I Wonder hitmaker, is about.
He said: "I'd like to read Morrissey's episode of Coronation Street."
Agreeing, Sally responded: "Yeah, me too."
David then asked: "It'll be somewhere, right?"
Sally said: "Yeah. I did tell the producers, I said, 'Morrissey sent a script in.'
"And they were like, 'Well, what's the name it's under?' ... I don't know."
Also in the podcast episode, David told Sally that he found Morrissey - full name Steven Morrissey - hot when the pair were sat on a sofa, and the award-winning singer was "stroking a cat".
And David wondered if Sally also found the star attractive when she met him.
He asked: "OK, here's a question, did you find him quite sexy?"
Sally replied: "No."
David then quipped: "Oh, because I met him, and I did find him quite sexy."
Sally quizzed: "Did you?"
David replied: "Yeah. Strangely, we were sat on a sofa, and he was stroking this cat.
"And I was thinking, 'Gosh, you're very, very sexy."
Sally said: "Oh, yeah. No, I didn't."
