Coronation Street legend finds love with carpet fitter after she quit soap and split from husband of 20 years
A CORONATION Street legend has found love again after splitting with her husband of 20 years.
Wendi Peters is said to be smitten with her new man as she’s officially gone Instagram official with him.
The former soap star, who played big mouth Cilla Battersby-Brown on the cobbles is dating a carpet fitter Gareth Wale.
Wendi and Gareth have been dating for months now and she also appears to have introduced him to her family.
In recent weeks the 56-year-old has enjoyed multiple romantic dates with Gareth.
During Easter the pair went on a romantic trip to Cotswolds as Wendi shared loved-up snaps with her fans.
Wendi, who left Coronation Street for good 10 years ago, now stars in the soon-to-be-axed Doctors.
Her new romance comes after The Sun revealed last year how she had split with her ex-husband Kenny Linden after 20 years.
Wendi moved out of the family home and was living alone in Hertfordshire following the breakup.
The former couple’s grown up actress daughter Gracie is living with Kenny. They went through seven rounds of IVF to have her.
Kenny was recently registered as blind as he has a rare hereditary condition called PXE (pseudoxanthoma elasticum), which affects only around 1,500 people in the UK.
Speaking in 2014 Wendi said: “We had been together six months when we visited my parents and Kenny said he wasn’t feeling well.
“Then he had a major stomach haemorrhage and vomited blood all over their downstairs loo.
“He frightened us all and we took him to hospital where doctors gave him a blood transfusion and stopped the blood loss.”