article_snippet.sent: My first trip to New York was with my aunt when I was about 18 and I had been appearing in Coronation Street for about 12 months.
article_snippet.sent: We had a lot of fun together - We went to see the musical Chicago on Broadway and did lots and lots of shopping.
article_snippet.sent: We returned to the city that never sleeps in January 2001, eight months before the terrible events of 9/11, and one of the first things my boyfriend Sylvain Longchambon
article_snippet.sent: Sylvain and I flew to the US from Manchester and spent four nights in Manchester.
article_snippet.sent: Friends had told our about it before our travelled to New York.