Coronation Street star Kym Marsh has revealed she’s planning to go all out for her upcoming 50th birthday next year and has no intentions of slowing down any time soon
Kym Marsh is looking forward to embracing a new chapter as she prepares to celebrate her 50th birthday next year. The Coronation Street actress wants to prioritise her health and wellbeing and plans to go all out for the occasion in June,
“I’m not horrified about turning 50. Isn’t 50 the new 40? I’m very excited about it; I’ve already said I’m going to milk it for all it’s worth!” she has said in a new interview.
“I’ve decided that every month for the whole year, I’m going to do something to celebrate. A friend already wants to take me away in my week off in May and for my actual birthday in June, people are going to come to see me in the show. There’s still more planning to do, but I don’t plan to turn 50 quietly – half a century needs celebrating!”
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Kym certainly has cause for celebration. As well as an impressive showbiz career spanning more than two decades, the star, who will appear in the stage adaptation of cult 90s thriller Single White Female from January, recently revealed she’d become a grandmother, or ‘YaYa’, for the fourth time after her daughter Emilie gave birth to a son on Christmas Day.
Kym shared a picture of Emilie’s son Teddy and stepdaughter Polly holding their new brother alongside the caption: “Well what a wonderful Christmas gift this is!!”
Kym is also a grandmother to her son David’s boy, Clay. She loves being young enough to do “all the fun stuff” with her grandkids. “I love being a grandparent; it’s hard to explain,” Kym said.
“I’ve told friends who’ve asked what the difference is from being a parent, that it’s like you have all the love you have for your children, then an added extra on top. It’s like having a king-size Mars bar – it’s the best,” she told Prima.
Kym is perhaps best known for her role as Michelle Connor in Corrie, but since her exit in 2019, she has thrown herself into other roles, including Nicky Walters in BBC drama Waterloo Road and, more recently, Channel 5 thriller The Imposter.
She’s also turned her hand to theatre, starring in a number of plays and musicals, including Fatal Attraction, 101 Dalmatians and Abigail’s Party.
While Kym, who won a British Soap Award for best newcomer in 2007, hasn’t ruled out a return to the cobbles, she’s enjoying being faced with new challenges.
“I’m still having so much fun away from Corrie – I’m being given so many nice opportunities to play different characters and experience different parts of the industry, whether it’s dramas, musicals or plays, or my co-hosting stuff on Morning Live,” she explained.
“I still haven’t quite done everything I want to do. I would never rule a return out. Hopefully, one day, they’ll want me back, and I’ll want to go back and it will work well for everyone. But I’m having a lot of fun playing other roles.”
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 25 years since Kym skyrocketed to fame on ITV show Popstars. In 2011, she joined Myleene Klass, Danny Foster, Suzanne Shaw and Noel Sullivan to form the group Hear’Say.
Their debut track Pure and Simple was a huge success, selling over 500,000 copies in its first week and over one million that year, making it the fastest-selling debut single of all time in the UK at the time. It was followed up with a sell-out tour and a number one album, Popstars.
But the band’s success was short-lived, with Kym sensationally quitting the group in 2002 after a series of rows with Myleene. Thankfully, their bust-ups are a thing of the past, with Kym revealing the band “all still chat”.
And earlier this year, Myleene even defended her former bandmate after a ‘fat-shaming’ video from their time on Popstars resurfaced. With so many noughties pop bands reforming, it begs the question: would Kym consider a reunion?
“I always laugh and say ‘never say never’ about a Hear’Say reunion. We might pop up somewhere, just for a one-off performance down the line, to surprise everyone,” she said.
Whatever Kym decides to do next, she looks back on everything that’s happened in her life as a learning curve. “Whether it’s personal life, or career, I feel like I’ve learned something from every chapter of my life,” she added.
“This is a whole new one that’s about to start, so it’s good that I have a clean slate and I’m in a nice place in my life, in every aspect. I’m feeling good about it all. I want to take care of myself a bit more and prioritise my own health and wellbeing. Sometimes I can neglect myself and tend to focus a lot on other people. While I don’t think that’s a bad thing, I need to be able to take some time out for me and do things for me sometimes.”
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Source: Mirror
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