‘Open All Hours’ star Stephanie Cole has retired from performing “kind of”, actor Geoff Leesley has claimed.

The 82-year-old actress is a legend of British tv having appeared within the ’80s sitcom reverse the late Ronnie Barker and Sir David Jason, in addition to exhibits reminiscent of ‘Tenko’, ‘A Little bit of a Do’, ‘Ready for God’ and ‘Doc Martin’ amongst many others.

Stephanie reprised her position as Mrs Featherstone in ‘Nonetheless Open Hours’, which was a continuation of the unique comedy with Sir David’s character Granville now working his late uncle Albert Arkwright’s nook store.

The sitcom ran for six sequence after the 2013 particular which introduced the characters again to the small display earlier than being cancelled by the BBC.

Geoff – who had a cameo in ‘Nonetheless Open All Hours’ and is the husband of actress Maggie Ollerenshaw who performed essential character Mavis – has now spilled that Stephanie has determined to finish her profession after six many years and deal with having fun with her retirement.

Talking in regards to the programme throughout an look on the ‘Solely Fools And Horses’ podcast, he stated: “They had been good, enjoyable episodes. Folks have retired, Steph Cole has retired, actually, kind of now.”

In her latter years, Stephanie turned a agency favorite in ‘Coronation Avenue’ taking part in Roy Cropper’s overbearing mom Sylvia Goodwin. She portrayed the Weatherfield battle-axe from 2011 to 2013 ultimately leaving the ITV cleaning soap as a part of Hayley Cropper’s pancreatic most cancers storyline.

In February 2023, the BBC confirmed that there could be no new episodes of ‘Nonetheless Open All Hours’.

The assertion learn: “There are at the moment no plans for brand spanking new episodes of ‘Nonetheless Open All Hours’.

“We’d wish to thank the forged and crew for six great sequence, that are all accessible to view on BBC iPlayer.”