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"Coronation Street legend Barbara Knox became tearful as she made a rare live television appearance on This Morning today (May 31). The 78-year-old was emotional but delighted after being shown a montage of her character Rita Sullivan&amp;#039;s best bits on the cobbles.  Knox, praising the daytime show&amp;#039;s team, commented: &amp;quot;That was wonderful. It&amp;#039;s my life, isn&amp;#039;t it? Gosh, that was beautiful. All those lovely scenes. To link them all together like that, it&amp;#039;s beautiful what you&amp;#039;ve done.&amp;quot; Explaining why she rarely does live TV interviews, she continued: &amp;quot;I think this is the first! I&amp;#039;m not very good at them. Some people are very good and they can chatter and say all sorts and be entertaining, but you&amp;#039;ve seen I&amp;#039;ve just blubbed!&amp;quot; The actress was appearing on the show to promote Rita and Dennis&amp;#039;s wedding episodes, which air next week to coincide with the Queen&amp;#039;s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Knox confirmed that she was keen to be heavily involved in the preparations for the big day. She said: &amp;quot;I thought, being given this marvellous story - once in a lifetime - I would treat it as if I was getting married. People out there will appreciate what you&amp;#039;re like - you want the dress to be right, the hat, the shoes, the flowers, the jewellery, everything. I went all the way through it and had a terrible time trying to find shoes!&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Phil Collinson, our producer, he&amp;#039;s worked this so brilliantly,&amp;quot; she continued. &amp;quot;From bringing Philip Lowrie back to play Dennis, to getting this marvellous story for the Jubilee. And another Tanner in the street - isn&amp;#039;t that brilliant?&amp;quot;  Knox also reflected on her early days at Coronation Street, confessing that she was &amp;quot;terrified&amp;quot; to be working alongside the likes of Pat Phoenix, Doris Speed and Violet Carson. She admitted: &amp;quot;They were marvellous and terrifying. &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t sit on that chair!&amp;#039; - one of those situations. But they were brilliant people, excellent actors, actresses and I learned a lot from them. &amp;quot;I was terrified of them. I was absolutely terrified, because they hadn&amp;#039;t had a younger person in it for a while, so I came in to find these wonderful, glorious people who were feted by the nation, they couldn&amp;#039;t move they were so admired and loved.  &amp;quot;I could not accept they were actors and I just lost my voice. I couldn&amp;#039;t speak, it was sheer nerves. However, they were very kind and helped me an awful lot and we became great friends - they were wonderful.&amp;quot; Coronation Street airs Rita&amp;#039;s wedding day on Monday (June 4) at 7.30pm and 8.30pm on ITV1. &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Coronation Street&amp;#039; Rita&amp;#039;s kidnapper confirmed &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Coronation Street&amp;#039; Michelle Keegan: &amp;#039;Rita kidnap terrifies Tina&amp;#039; &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Coronation Street&amp;#039; Rita actress Barbara Knox rules out retirement &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Coronation Street&amp;#039; Barbara Knox &amp;quot;terrified&amp;quot; in wedding hostage scenes &amp;gt; Read more &amp;#039;Coronation Street&amp;#039; spoilers and news Photo gallery - On-location shots from Rita and Dennis&amp;#039;s wedding: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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