The actress recently reprised the role of Christina Boyd in the ITV soap

Coronation Street star Amy Robins has revealed her family link to the cobbles, as well as her ’25-year friendship’ with co-star Tony Maudsley.

The actress recently reprised the role of Christina Boyd in the ITV soap. She was last seen on the cobbles earlier this year, after being double crossed by her daughter, Daisy Midgeley.

As fans saw, Christina was in cahoots with Daisy to scam Jenny Connor out of a windfall. However, Daisy rumbled that Christina was working with catfish Dom, who was there to fleece Jenny out of her cash by acting as a new love interest who could double her investment.

But instead of confronting her, got her hands on the cash herself and did a runner to Bali. Christina also left the Street in the aftermath. Then, in August, Christina was seen back in Weatherfield, much to Jenny’s dismay.

Bumping into her in the Rovers Return, Jenny fumed about Christina being there as she sat down for a chat with George. With a crush on the Undertaker, Jenny confronted the pair and George was left defending an emotional Christina, claiming their meeting was purely professional.

Jenny still wasn’t buying it as Christina revealed that Dom had died and that she was meeting with George to plan his funeral. But when she still didn’t believe her nemesis, Jenny stormed into the Undertakers and ended up seeing a lifeless Dom for herself in a mortifying confrontation.

Speaking about her return to Corrie, Amy has told the Metro: “This is my third or fourth return. My character Christina behaved so abominably the first time that I just couldn’t see anyway she’d come back. When they phoned me to ask me back again it was the happiest day. I went ‘woo-hoo!’ I love it so much.”

Christina’s growing connection with George has come following the exit of the latter’s former partner, Eileen Grimshaw, earlier this year.

But it means Amy is getting to work with her close pal, George star Tony. “We’ve been friends for 25 years,” she told the publication. “I first met him on a film called My Beautiful Son which we made with Julie Walters and we stayed in touch for all these years. It was lovely when they put our two characters together.”

But for Amy, who has also starred in EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks, she seems to have been destined to spend time on the cobbles.

“My brother Ted was here before me,” she revealed. “He played Brendan Finch, the editor of a supernatural magazine and he had a romance with Mary Taylor.

“I now share a dressing room with Patti Clare, who plays Mary. I said to her, ‘It’s funny to think that my brother was your love interest.’ When I was a child, my parents were extras on Coronation Street.”