The Ultimate Road Trip with Shelley King

About this episode

Shelley King discusses her role in Coronation Street and her passion for cars on The Ultimate Road Trip Podcast.

Coronation Street actor Shelley King joins James on the Ultimate Road Trip Podcast this week! She’s played Yasmeen for almost 10 years, but in 2019 hit the headlines for her character’s gradual degradation at the hands of her thoroughly nasty husband, Geoff Metcalfe (played by Ian Bartholomew), throwing the real-life problem of coercive control in relationships into the spotlight. What many of her fans may not know, is that along with acting, one of her other passions is cars. Especially ones from Stuttgart....

People in this episode

Host: James Whalley

Guest: Shelley King

Topics covered

• acting
• coercive control
• automotive passion
• Coronation Street
• relationships
• Stuttgart cars

Keywords

• Shelley King
• Coronation Street
• coercive control
• automotive
• Stuttgart
• acting
• relationships

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Coronation Street

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