Coronation Street star calls soap opera a ‘tightly gripped cult’ with ‘controlling environment’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Vicky Entwistle has alleged Coronation Street has a “controlling environment” and expressed her outrage at the treatment of her co-stars Bruce Jones and Sean Wilson. The actor, who left Coronation Street thirteen years ago, alleged the programme was run like “a tightly gripped cult” which her husband “begged” her to leave two years before her exit in 2011. “The freedom was electric.” open image in gallery Georgia Taylor, Bruce Jones, Vicky Entwistle and Jane Danson as the Battersby family on ‘Coronation Street' The Independent has contacted ITV for comment. “I don’t wanna see anymore upset there’s been enough sadness recently rip Les Battersby.” Meanwhile, another person called Jones’ exit the “final nail in the coffin” for Coronation Street.