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CS - Carla ISN'T leaving!
callumfreeman
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Before you all head down to the studio with pitchforks and torches and burn Blackburn at the stake, it has been confirmed she isn't leaving but only taking a break, which won't even happen until next year. 
:p
I don't have a complete dislike towards Carla and I am sure the actress is lovely, but the show is hardly going to fall without her. It survived just fine when she took a break in 2009 and 2012. ^_^
Panic over. ;-)
:pI don't have a complete dislike towards Carla and I am sure the actress is lovely, but the show is hardly going to fall without her. It survived just fine when she took a break in 2009 and 2012. ^_^
Panic over. ;-)
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If she is planning on doing other work then this break will probably be a longer one, a year or more. If she is out of contract then she could decide not to come back, a lot will depend on what offers come her way.
Jo Joyner, Letitia Dean and Natalie Cassidy all announced that they were taking breaks from EE. They were out for 2, 6 and 7 years (bar a couple of episodes) respectively.
Lol seriously? The show got so much crap in 2009.
I am sure it will survive this time around without the need of Carla to be in every episode or linked to a lot of storylines. Plus by the time she leaves Blackburn will probably be replaced.
She was away from Feb-October to have her daughter Daisy
Although she is saying it's a break I can see her being away a while because she'll get lots of work outside corrie. She might not even want to return after that.
But I disagree OP, as referenced 2009 was absolute gash for me without her (that was another pretty crap period in the show's history altogether), unless things REALLY turn around by the end of the year I do think she'll leave a big whole in the show. Her performances just instantly transcend the quality of anything she's involved in imo. Don't get me wrong there is still enough watchable stuff going on but aside from Carla there's not an awful lot really captivating my attention right now.
2012 maybe. 2009 was horrific!
Fair enough, but the show still coped without her during the eight-months she was absent.
I think they may be the same person as you never see them both together! ;-)
Not being sarcastic .....but I can see a slight resemblance.:o
Exactly. Alison has had a few breaks in the past (when she had her baby and then in 2012 when all the long hours/big storylines left her exhausted) but there was always a return in sight. Fair enough if some people want to call this a break but she wants to try other projects and she's going to have to LEAVE Corrie to do that. I'll miss the actress and the character A LOT and I hope she does return one day but no one knows what the future holds.
Exactly - I love Carla - but she's not Elsie Tanner or Bet Lynch..... However she is above most of the females in the cast today - obviously not above Sally or Gail.
No actor is bigger than the show - and it's not in as bad a shape as people on here like to portray it as, as someone above suggested - I think Blackburn will be gone soon after the live episode.
i wood agree
That said, the Carla/Nick storyline is so unbelievable. And boring. Isn't it amazing that an attractive woman like that dates only the guys who live in her street.
The Barlow drunk and now Nick.
Pathetic really.
Have you seen Pete Burns?
You may change your mind.
True; and the mods kindly altered the title of http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2068683
I remember reading an interview with her a few months ago, she said she was very happy at the moment, and then said that when she does go off to do other things, that she'll try to come back. She also said she would hate to be killed off and that she would like to end her days on Corrie. So hopefully this means that she will return.
I think this interview was the end of the October, the week Rob/Tracy's was getting married. I wonder what has changed her mind over the last few months because she seemed very happy at Corrie at that time. Probably the lack of decent storylines she has been involved in.