‘Coronation Road’ star Kate Ford thinks Tommy Orpington may have been the love of Tracy’s life.
The 48-year-old actress performs Tracy Barlow within the hit ITV cleaning soap and after her character cut up from her footballer associate Tommy Orpington this week, Kate has revealed she thinks Tommy may have been “the one”.
Talking in an interview shared by ITV, Kate stated: “I feel Tommy would have been the one for Tracy, however he is simply so obsessive about soccer that she by no means got here first.
“If he’d have had a unique mindset, she would have been so pleased with him, however he is simply obsessive about soccer and she will’t compete with that. I feel out of all her relationships, she actually wished this one to work essentially the most.”
The cleaning soap couple cut up this week after Tommy was supplied a brand new job in Southampton taking part in soccer, forcing Tracy to make him select between her and his work and Tommy finally selected the game.
In scenes subsequent week, viewers will see Tracy’s ex fiancee Rob flip to her for assist and can make a shock proposal to her after he has been on the run from jail since his escape try, having narrowly averted loss of life after being pushed down the steps by his sister Carla Connor.
Talking about Tracy’s emotions for Rob, Kate stated: “Tracy actually liked Rob, however a lot occurred there to take that away. I feel she’s moved on, these emotions for him are lengthy gone.
When requested if Tracy believes she might be in peril with Rob along with his desperation to remain out of jail, Kate stated: “Not at first however as issues escalate she immediately realises that is fairly critical.
“She doesn’t assume he’d ever damage her actually, however there’s at all times that stage of doubt so there’s a little little bit of concern.”
Kate labored with Marc Baylis – who performs Rob Donovan – when he was final on the present from 2012 to 2017 and Kate shared that it’s nice to work with him once more.
She added: “I’ve actually loved it. It was so good. I imply, for a begin he appears precisely the identical, like he hasn’t aged in any respect, however we simply went straight again into it.
“It was like he hadn’t gone and it was very nice to play scenes with him once more.”