Coronation Street star Sally Ann Matthews has been quizzed by fans after some spotted Jenny Connor’s lack of appearances on screen of late. As viewers of the ITV soap know, Sally first started playing Jenny at the age of just 16.

Oldham-born Sally Ann was cast in 1986 as Jenny Bradley – the daughter of villain Alan Bradley who was taken in by mother figure Rita Tanner – then Rita Fairclough – while her father worked away.

After five years, Sally quit the show in pursuit of other roles. She returned briefly in 1993, before making a huge comeback in 2015 when Jenny started dating Kevin Webster.

However, dealing with the loss of losing her four-year-old son Tom two years earlier when he drowned in a paddling pool, she snatched Kevin’s son Jack in order to keep him safe and nearly threw herself off a balcony, resulting in her getting sectioned.

She then didn’t return to the street again in 2016 when Rita took pity on her. She soon started work at Underworld and began a relationship with factory boss Johnny Connor. The pair then wed the following year before buying the Rovers together in 2018. And the rest, as they say, is history as Jenny’s affair led to the breakdown of her marriage before Johnny tragically died in a sinkhole accident in 2021.

More recently, Jenny had a battle on her hands to save the beloved Rovers Return but her and Daisy Midgeley’s underhand tactics to get back behind the bar soon came to Carla Connor’s attention, as she found out they’d used the money serial killer Stephen Reid had stolen from her and Underworld.

But it seems fans have noticed that Jenny hasn’t been making frequent appearances in the boozer of late as when Sally Ann took part in an Instagram Live on Thursday (June 20), she was quizzed on her whereabouts and she confirmed she isn’t gone for good with the soap filming weeks in advance of broadcast.

Reading back a question, Metro.co.uk reports that she said: “‘We haven’t seen much of Jenny for a while’, no you’re not going to be seeing Jenny for quite a long while, so that’s that!”

She then added: “Well you’ll see Jenny again but…you won’t see her for a while! Okeydokey, sounds like this might be the best time to go, I think I might’ve done a reasonably successful live!”

But it seems Sally Ann is just enjoying a nice holiday as she also spoke of her getaway plans. “On Saturday, we’re going to go off on the boat, we’re very lucky to go and do that, take the boat up river. I’m going to just chill on the boat and do nowt pretty much, and then I’m going to go back to Cyprus, and then I’m going to do nowt…”

Meanwhile, Sally Ann recently revealed who she’d play on the cobbles if she wasn’t playing Jenny – because they’re her ‘husband’s favourite’. Taking part in a previous Q&A on Instagram, Sally Ann was asked: “If you could play any character in Corrie apart from yourself who would you play?” to which she shared a picture of her husband Nick and their pet dog, border terrier Veto, and said: “Tracy Barlow because she’s my husband’s favourite.”