The actress originally appeared as Jenny Bradley in the ITV soap between 1986 and 1991, as the daughter of villainous Alan Bradley. She returned for a brief stint two years later.
Matthews then made a full-time comeback the following year, and her on-screen family was gradually expanded. Jenny married Johnny Connor (Richard Hawley), and step-daughter from her first marriage, Daisy Midgley (Charlotte Jordan), was introduced.
Shamefaced, Jenny left for a new life in Tenerife.
Now, four months on from her low-key exit, Matthews has lifted the lid on her feelings towards the long-running soap opera and why she chose to leave.
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"I’m 55 now, I don’t wanna waste my time doing stuff that I’m not enjoying with people that I am not enjoying doing it with."
During Jenny's final months, Glenda Shuttleworth (Jodie Prenger) took charge of the pub's management and Bradley was supposedly working in The Kabin. However, as Matthews explains, we actually saw very little of her in the newsagents because of a lack of studio space.
"I was supposed to go into The Kabin and then they couldn’t get The Kabin set in because there were lots of hospital sets and police station sets."
According to Matthews, the serial's decision to focus on storylines surrounding Weatherfield's policing department and the local hospital had ruffled feathers with her fellow cast members.
"But all the research was coming back saying audiences want spoilers, non-linear storytelling, they watch true crime dramas on Netflix, so they want a lot of crime.
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