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Julie Goodyear, MBE (born Julie Kemp; 29 March 1942) is an English television actress and media personality. She is known for playing pub landlady Bet Lynch (later Bet Gilroy) on British soap opera ''Coronation Street''. Goodyear first appeared as Bet Lynch for nine episodes in 1966, before becoming a series regular for twenty-five years from 1970 to 1995. She returned for eight episodes in 2002 and another seven in 2003. For her role on Coronation Street, she received the Special Recognition Award at the 1995 National Television Awards. She was made an MBE in the 1996 New Year Honours. ==Biography== Goodyear was born in Bury, Lancashire, to George and Alice Kemp, who divorced when Goodyear was six years old. (Alice later married Bill Goodyear, from whom Julie received her surname. Goodyear was raised by her grandmother, who later died when Goodyear was thirteen years old. (She had been missing and her body was later found in the canal.) Goodyear has stated that she often felt her grandmother's spirit with her. While in her teens, her parents became publicans at a bar called The Bay Horse. Her autobiography entitled ''Just Julie'' was released on 3 November 2006, in which she discussed her relationships with men and women. Goodyear is said to smoke 40 cigarettes-a-day Among her partners was the late Justin Fashanu, a bisexual footballer who played for clubs including Norwich City and Nottingham Forest, who was nearly 20 years her junior. They were together for a time in the early 1990s, several years before Fashanu committed suicide. In 1979, she temporarily left ''Coronation Street'' for the second of three times after being diagnosed with cervical cancer,〔(Soap opera actress in courtroom scenes to rival TV drama )〕 something she kept secret from the public until she had recovered. Following her private battle she founded a charity which resulted in formation of the ''Julie Goodyear Cancer Screening Centre''. Goodyear was accused of having "rigged" a prize raffle organized by the charity, but was cleared of the charges at the subsequent court case.〔(Fansite )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julie Goodyear」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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