Hayley hangs up her Red Anorak

[GloriaW]

I've just caught up with this. How anyone can think that a) Kate Ford is anything but an appalling actor and b) Tracy Barlow is a convincing villain is beyond me. They are both, in my opinion, hopeless and completely unbelievable.

You're welcome to your opinion which is beyond me also. And again, if you read my original post I wasn't hailing her acting skills or the others I pointed out, I was saying I felt they were effective character interpretations. Hardly any of these soap actors give nuanced or shaded performances due to their limitations and that of the scripts and shooting schedules. However, for me, some of them succeed sufficiently in terms of making their characters entertaining and/or believable.