Inside troubled love life of Corrie Street star Alison King – from lockdown split to toyboy lover and broken engagement
TAKE a look at Coronation Street star Alison King's troubled love life - from lockdown split to toyboy lover and broken engagement - we've got it all.
The actress has been a fan-favourite on Coronation Street since 2006, when she first appeared as Carla Connor.
She has had some mind-blowing plotlines during the previous 17 years, such as becoming the victim of serial murderer Stephen Reid, being kidnapped, having a lover who raped her, struggling with alcoholism, having an affair and plenty more.
It’s safe to say that there has never been a dull moment with this character.
Alison, on the other hand, lives a more low-key, comfortable, and normal life than Carla on the Cobbles.
But they do say, there’s never any sunshine without rain is there?
The 50-year-old has dated a handful of her soap co-stars, some younger, some older, and even came close to walking down the aisle before calling it off.
So let’s start from the beginning, all the way back to when Alison was 18 and she worked in a surf shack.
Shortly after that she worked as a dental nurse for four years before studying at North Cheshire Theatre School when she was 22 years old.
A few years later Alison began making her way in the world of showbiz, as she became a model in the late 1990s, and she was even the face of Boddington beer and appeared in several Daz adverts.
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She got her first huge acting break when she got casted in Brookside, the Channel 4 soap that has now returned after 20 years, as a hair salon worker.
But one of her most famous roles was a Lynda Block in Sky One’s Dream team – it was here that she met one of her lovers, co-star Jim Alexander who she then got engaged to, but that didn’t end.
We can’t forget when she played Mrs Fanshaw in Coronation Street in 2004.
Alison played a one-off character who seduced Ryan Thomas’ character Jason Grimshaw. How could we forget that cringe-worthy scene?
Shortly after she was given a permanent role of Carl Connor and she officially joined in 2006.
Off camera the actress was previously engaged to Adam Huckett who worked as a sound technician on the ITV soap, and she shares her 14-year-old daughter Daisy with him.
The pair broke up in 2016 and never made it down the aisle.
Alison later married Corrie co-star Philip Middlemiss, who played Des Barnes, after a five-year relationship.
Alison was spotted in November 2018 with a new "mystery man," who she eventually identified as David Stuckley, an IT expert who was nine years younger than she was. A year later, they announced their engagement in OK! magazine.
It was then reported in May 2022 that the couple had broken up after 'growing apart' during lockdown.
The star is now reportedly single and enjoying her life.
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It comes after Alison’s ex-fiancé revealed he is expecting a baby with his new girlfriend following their split earlier this year in May.
The Coronation Street star, 50, parted ways with her 41-year-old toyboy David Stuckey just 12 months ago.
