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Bill Roache leads Anne Kirkbride tributes at NTAs

Bill Roache led tributes to Coronation Street's Anne Kirkbride at tonight's National Television Awards.

As the soap's Ken and Deirdre Barlow, they shared the screen for more than 40 years.

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Johnny Briggs: Everybody loved Anne

Former Coronation Street star Johnny Briggs paid tribute to "incredible" Anne Kirkbride.

Johnny - who starred as Mike Barlow, her lover and rival to her screen husband Ken Barlow - said, "everybody loved her."

Johnny Briggs who played Mike Baldwin with Anne Kirkbride, who played Deirdre Barlow. Credit: PA/PA Wire/Press Association Images

She loved everyone and everybody loved her, that's the tribute I pay to her.

I've never heard anybody say a bad word about her and she has my admiration for that because, you know, when you're living in the limelight all the time it's difficult.

I hope there is (some kind of special tribute show), she certainly deserves it.

I think I will remember her by her glasses. You know her reading glasses? She wouldn't ever take them off.

– Johnny Briggs
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