Alison might have a jam-packed schedule filming at Coronation Street, but she still makes time to unwind after work. She told us: "I live half an hour away from the Coronation Street studios, so the drive home is my time to switch off. I also like a bit of yoga and meditation, and of course I always look forward to spending time my daughter, Daisy. Whilst training at theatre school, Alison got her first television role as hairdresser Helen in two episodes of Brookside.
While the rest of the nation might be glued to the latest reality TV show on offer, Alison has confessed she would much rather watch a gritty drama or an engrossing documentary. Alison King is engaged to David Stuckley. Sadly the pair were forced to cancel their wedding in Greece thanks coronavirus, but the date has been rescheduled. The fallout from the factory collapse will see a number of Weatherfield residents with blood on their hands, most notably businesswoman Carla Connor Alison King.
Alison has been a firm fixture on Coronation Street as Carla for quite some time after she was first introduced in Alison previously took a break from Coronation Street in where she took a sabbatical to try other projects before making a return to the role. The character was re-introduced the following year in December as Carla came back, bringing lots of drama with her. Carla is going to be feeling the heat on Coronation Street in the coming weeks when she will fall under suspicion as the culprit who caused the roof collapse.
She returned to filming Coronation Street on 10 October While on her break from Coronation Street, she filmed four episodes as Superintendent Henchy in the second series of Sky Atlantic comedy Sick Note Alison is considered by the British press and public as a sex symbol.
Her physical appearance and personality is considered popular within the United Kingdom male demographic.
She has been named as one of the "sexiest soap females". Scottish Daily Record has called her "dreamy", while Daily Mirror has referred to her as "effortlessly gorgeous", and its readers voted her as one of the Sexiest Female soap stars. Columnist Grace Dent described her as "an alluring vision, raven haired, classy, sultry and replete with guile". Alison has said she is "flattered" to be considered a sex symbol, speaking in of her surprise "I don't know that I am - but yeah, why not?
I've just turned 37, so way to go! They can call me a sex symbol if they want. But if they saw me first thing in the morning they may change their minds! I don't think Carla is sexy, I think she's just a bit gobby. I don't really see her as a sexpot. She launched the ad campaign at The Circle Club in Manchester. She said she was "thrilled to be chosen as the girl to deliver that infamous endline in a Boddingtons ad. As a girl who spends so much time in Manchester, it's great to be able to be part of a campaign for a brand such as Boddingtons, especially as I love a creamy pint of Bodds down my local.
During her five-year relationship with Philip Middlemiss , Alison was the subject of press attention due to his fame on Coronation Street, which she would join a decade later, such as when in August , Middlemiss and Alison, then years old, were spotted staying at the Dromoland Castle in Newmarket-on-Fergus, prompting speculation that they they would get engaged.
She is a wonderful girl. I love her to death. In a July interview, he said of their relationship "I was in love with Allie. She's the only person I've ever really loved. But she was working in London and I was in Manchester. In another life, if I had been a bus driver and she had worked at the local baker's shop, we would have got married and had kids by now.
The couple shared a flat in London. However, the pair split in early The breakup was reported to be because of King's new role on Coronation Street as Carla Connor, as their relationship became strained when she moved to Manchester in order to star in the soap opera. In January that year, she had said "He's making me very happy and bounding up between London and Manchester.
He's coming up for a month in a few days, so I'm looking forward to that very much. She dated Adam Huckett , a Coronation Street sound technician from April , just two weeks after breaking off her engagement to Jim Alexander.
She gave birth to their daughter, Daisy Mae, on 11 February , in a Manchester hospital. She delivered the baby by Caesarean section. King has also stated that she wishes to have more children in the future, and loves being a mother.
King admitted she initially struggled with motherhood and "cried down the phone to Julia Haworth for hours. She was sweet. My daughter is hilarious. She just makes me laugh every day. If he gets a ring! However, on 16 October it was reported that the engagement was off as they had split up. King had taken a four-month break from Coronation Street between June and October to go on holiday with Huckett and their daughter.
They claimed they had split as they "weren't making each other happy anymore". They said they were "determined" to remain friends, denied anyone else was involved, and confirmed they would still work together on Coronation Street. Since , she has been dating Hollyoaks assistant director Paul Slavin. The relationship was revealed after they were photographed by the press and there was speculation as to his identity.
She said of the relationship: "I'm seeing somebody. It's very early days so I don't want to say anything more, but I'm happy. Sign In. Edit Alison King. Showing all 58 items. Before starting her acting career, she moved to Newquay in Cornwall at the age of 18 and worked at Fat Willys Surf Shack. She worked as a dental nurse before enrolling at the North Cheshire Theatre School at the age of Gave birth to her 1st child at age 35, a daughter Daisy Mae Huckett on 11 February Child's father is her [now ex] boyfriend, Adam Huckett.
Anticipating that Tina would tell Carla about their affair, Peter took his wife aside in the Rovers' back room and made a full confession. Carla showed Peter no empathy, taking the view that she'd only ever been a convenience to him, and went off to have it out with Tina.
However, just before Carla got to Tina's flat in Victoria Street the young woman had been brutally attacked and she was now lying unconscious on the road; as the first on the scene, Carla was arrested by the police. Tina died in hospital from her injuries, leaving Carla facing a murder charge. A few days before the attack on Tina, Carla had experienced stomach pains which the hospital couldn't explain. The day after her death, the pains returned and Carla lost the baby, who would have been a girl.
After a few weeks of asking Carla the same questions at the police station , the police moved onto other avenues but Peter's betrayal and the miscarriage continued to affect Carla deeply. During a manic shopping spree with Eva Price , Carla broke down in tears in the changing rooms and later at the Rovers she consumed wine by the glassful.
Peter helped her home to the flat, hoping to worm his way back into her affections, but she promptly summoned Rob to bodily throw him out. To enable herself to move on from Peter, Carla moved out of the flat and into 12 Victoria Court , bought Peter out of the factory and proved that she was over him by inviting young Luke Britton over to her flat. After Luke proved himself a good listener, Carla leaned in for a kiss, but Luke refused to take advantage of her in her vulnerable state.
In July , Peter was charged with murdering Tina. Carla believed that he'd done it but when she saw him in hospital two months later when he was being treated for alcohol poisoning, thinking he was going to die Peter assured Carla that her secret would die with him. Carla realised that Peter was in fact innocent, a belief she stated on the stand during Peter's trial in October. However, the evidence against Peter was enough to secure a guilty verdict and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Doing some detective work herself, Carla realised that Rob and Tracy's alibis for the night Tina was attacked didn't match and interrogated Rob.
Rob had been a supportive brother to Carla throughout the investigation and had been convinced of Peter's guilt from the word go, but as Carla wondered if Rob had another motive to want Peter convicted of the crime, and talked about how terrified Tina must have been when her attacker finished her off, his haunted look revealed his guilt and he confessed. Though she hated Peter, Carla couldn't allow him to serve life for a crime he didn't commit and reported Rob to the police.
Rob fled the scene before the police got there but he was apprehended when Tracy lured him to an abandoned warehouse having tipped off the law. With Rob in custody, Peter's conviction was overturned and he was released from prison. Inevitably, one of his first acts after being given his freedom was to beg Carla to take him back, inferring from her helping put Rob away that she was still in love with him.
Carla told him that this wasn't so and for once, he accepted this as the truth. A few days later, Peter moved permanently to Portsmouth , allowing both Carla and himself to move on with the next phase of their lives. Carla told Hanlon to stick his deal "somewhere painful" due to his rudeness towards Nick, but this amused the notoriously difficult client so much that he went ahead and placed an order.
Now Carla's neighbour at the Victoria Court flats, Nick came to see Carla as a friend and started calling on her for various reasons, such as fixing her laptop. Their bond was cemented when, over a bottle of wine, they shared their past relationship mistakes.
Carla hoped for something more but she settled for friendship when Nick's partner Erica Holroyd announced her pregnancy and Nick, despite caring for Carla more, did the honourable thing by supporting Erica. Tracy blamed Carla for putting Rob in prison but she hadn't got even with her yet. On the same evening, an oblivious Tracy let herself into Carla's flat planning to hit Carla over the head with an ornament, having rowed with her earlier that day.
When she heard someone else in the flat, Tracy got cold feet and left, but a candle she lit caused a lampshade to catch fire and the flat was soon engulfed in flames.
Leanne was first on the scene and rescued Carla before going back in with Kal Nazir for Amy. Last to leave, Kal was caught in a gas canister explosion and killed instantly. A second explosion, caused by the first, of canisters in the builder's yard claimed another victim in teenager Maddie Heath.
Tracy had managed to keep anyone from finding out that she'd been at Carla's and so when the cause of the fire was determined, everyone, including Carla, assumed that she'd forgotten to blow out the candle when she went to sleep. Carla hated herself for causing two deaths and, wanting to punish herself, started gambling with Underworld's money online, at The Sunset Casino and at poker matches with the neighbours. In August , she announced that she was selling Underworld and her flat and leaving Weatherfield.
One of the few people to show her sympathy was Nick. Sensing that she didn't really want to give up her business, Nick got in touch with Michelle's cousin Aidan and convinced him to invest in Underworld, despite great reluctance on his part after seeing the company's accounts. Meanwhile, grateful for his support Carla slept with Nick, whose relationship with Erica had hit the skids following her miscarriage. Accepting that his heart lay with Carla - though unaware that he's cheated on her - Erica finished with Nick, who then made his relationship with Carla official.
In September , Tracy confessed to her boyfriend Robert Preston that she caused the fire at Victoria Court, and an appalled Robert appealed to her to set Carla straight to end her self-loathing. Tracy finally told Carla the truth when a suicidal Carla drove them to the edge of a quarry and decided, on a coin toss, to jump down the precipice.
Carla was unsure whether to report Tracy to the police, as it was unlikely to lead to any charges, but Nick did so anyway and, as Carla predicted, Tracy told the police that she'd lied to stop Carla from committing suicide.
However, Carla no longer had Kal and Maddie's deaths on her conscience and she could now put the fire behind her. The following month , Johnny Connor turned up and revealed to Carla that the money Aidan had used to buy into the factory was his, moved to Aidan's bank account as a tax dodge. Johnny laid claim to the share and agreed to remain an investor if his daughter Kate was given a job. Aidan and Johnny helped Carla run the factory and with three managers, Underworld had a revival of fortunes.
Carla enjoyed having "family" around her and, not wanting to lose her newfound happiness, asked Nick to marry her; Nick, of course, accepted. Just after Christmas, Johnny broke the news to Carla that he was actually her father, having confirmed it by having a DNA test done without her consent.
Johnny explained that he'd always known deep down that she was his but had never been able to acknowledge it as he'd been unfaithful to his wife Louisa. The final part of Johnny's bombshell was that Rob had been blackmailing him over the affair, hence him coming clean now.
Johnny's words - and the realisation that she'd married her cousin when she wed Paul - knocked Carla for six and, questioning everything including her future with Nick, she ended up at the casino again where she ran into Robert who was out to have a good time after dumping Tracy.
After a big win, Robert and Carla celebrated with champagne and sex in a hotel bedroom. Afterwards, Carla was able to build good relationships with them and, given time, with Johnny. In February , at a wedding fayre Tracy told Carla that she knew about her one-night-stand and threatened to reveal all to Nick unless she left the area and got Nick to sell the bistro to Robert.
Though she would normally fight back, Carla viewed it as an opportunity for a fresh start and went along with Tracy's demands, talking Nick into moving away with ease. Meanwhile, Carla and Nick settled on Devon as the setting of their new lives together and Carla got Johnny and Aidan to buy her out of the factory.
The wedding was set for Sunday 22nd May at the bistro. Nothing was going to deter Carla from marrying Nick, whether an ingratiating Gail Rodwell throwing Carla an awkward pamper party, David Platt telling her that Nick was still affected by the brain damage he suffered in a car crash in and was prone to random bursts of anger, or Nick calling off the wedding for the same reason, afraid that he would hurt Carla.
On Carla's hen night, the hens donned black wigs and invaded a nightclub where Kate and Gail fought over the microphone. They ended up at the police station when Gail took the police officers called to eject them from the club for strippers.
On the day of the wedding, Tracy started spinning her web by redirecting Carla's wedding flowers to Crewe. Johnny, who was aware of Tracy's grudge against Carla, made sure that Tracy couldn't spoil the wedding by locking her in a cupboard in the factory, getting Jenny Bradley to take over so that he could give Carla away, although he was already too late to fulfill that honour and Roy was drafted in.
As she and Nick were about to say their vows, Carla had a pang of guilt and, taking Nick aside in the kitchen, confessed to sleeping with Robert. After a talk with David, Nick decided to forgive and marry Carla, but the delay had given Tracy enough time to set off the smoke alarm in the factory and make her escape. She then interrupted the service as the bride and groom were giving their vows and announced to the congregation the details of Carla's infidelity and her manipulation of Nick into selling the bistro to Robert.
Not wanting to let Tracy win, Nick still married Carla, but at the reception he wondered aloud how deeply Carla's betrayal ran, including whether Carla slept with Robert before she proposed to him. Carla truthfully denied the allegation but it didn't matter; Nick knew that he could never trust Carla and walked out on her, deciding to have the marriage annulled.
As the guests reacted to the turn of events, Carla decided that going to Devon alone was the best way forward for her. Waiting for Roy to drive her to the station in his Woody, Carla got in her car and, seeing Tracy standing victoriously in the street, vengefully drove at her, swerving only at the last second. However, she hit Roy's partner Cathy Matthews as the car slammed into the postbox. Miraculously, both Carla and Cathy escaped the collision relatively unscathed, but her reckless behaviour caused Roy to fall out with her.
The following day, Carla parted from the Connors as Johnny drove her to the station. Roy arrived in the street to say goodbye at the last second. Having watched her throw away her happiness so many times, Roy asked Carla to learn to love herself. Carla kissed Roy goodbye and, taking what was left of her self-respect, left the street. In December Aidan met up with Carla to ask for her help setting the factory back up following its closure a few months prior.
Carla turned him down flat, but on Christmas Day she made an unannounced appearance at a Connor family dinner party where she agreed to help Aidan out by investing in Underworld again, strictly as a sleeping partner. Having recently been diagnosed with kidney failure, Carla did not plan to tell her family and friends except for Roy. A wake up call soon came after Carla collapsed outside the bistro and was told she needed a course of dialysis and an urgent transplant.
Carla then opened up to her family who underwent tests to see if they were a donor match. Both Johnny and Peter objected to this relationship with Peter convinced that Carla was only doing it to get back at him. On the day that her siblings got their test results, Carla collapsed in the Rovers and an accusation of drunkenness from Peter lead Roy to reveal the truth about her kidney failure.
Daniel promised to stick by Carla but Carla realised that he was still in love with Sinead Tinker and ended the brief relationship by engineering a reconciliation between Daniel and Sinead. With Aidan having passed all of the necessary tests, the kidney donation went ahead and was successful. After this, Carla decided to sell her house in Devon and remain in Weatherfield indefinitely. As a thank-you to Aidan for saving her life, on his birthday Carla signed her share of the factory over to him.
In May , Johnny found Aidan dead after he committed suicide at his flat. Imran Habeeb discovered the will and handed a copy to Alya, who confronted an oblivious Johnny. Johnny felt that Aidan's wishes should be respected and forbade the family from challenging it on the grounds that Aidan was of unsound mind.
Having been forced to give up on Underworld, Carla began looking for another investment and considered being a sleeping partner with Maria who planned to open a new salon. Carla was initially hesitant, believing Peter was only attempting to get back into her bed but ultimately went into partnership with Peter as equals at the factory.
Things remained tense between Peter and Carla at the factory and Carla began looking for ways to buy Peter out of the business. In January , Carla bought a boat for Peter after the pair agreed to move forward as friends.
The following month the boat, which Peter was keeping in the forecourt outside Underworld, mysteriously caught fire during the night while Simon was on board, causing him to be hospitalised with smoke inhalation.
Carla examined the Underworld CCTV and discovered that a sleepwalking Roy had accidentally knocked over a paraffin lamp that had caused the fire and deleted the incriminating footage. Roy was furious when he discovered what Carla had done and came clean to Peter himself. Furthermore, when Carla employed Gary Windass to repair minor fire damage done to the factory by the boat fire, he discovered that the roof was structurally unsafe as Pat Phelan had done a botched job when he replaced it the previous year.
Gary recommended major repairs to Carla but, concerned about the cost, she insisted that he only go ahead with repairing the fire damage. In March , with business still struggling, Carla privately planned to outsource production abroad while keeping the Weatherfield factory as a base for packing.
After abandoning the option of China , Carla settled on moving business to Milton Keynes , behind the backs of the factory workers and Nick. The following week, the factory staff decided to protest against Carla and locked themselves in Underworld to begin a sit-in while she was absent. Whilst Sally and Gina were rowing on the balcony, the roof suddenly collapsed and took Sally with it, trapping the staff in the factory below.
Although all of the workers were eventually rescued from the factory without serious injuries, Rana Habeeb remained trapped having returned to the factory to retrieve her bag which contained her wedding vows.
After a second collapse, Rana died in the arms of her bride to be Kate. Carla was inconsolable when she discovered that Rana was dead, confessing to Peter that she knew the roof was dangerous and did nothing about it.
With this problem sorted, Peter convinced Carla to lie to the police when she was interviewed. Despite this, Carla continued to struggle with the guilt of what had happened and when Kate expressed her gratitude towards Carla at a memorial for Rana in Victoria Gardens , Robert accused Carla of knowing the roof was unsafe and Carla admitted that she did.
Carla was arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter but released later the same day. Carla moved into No. Suffering from psychosis, Carla believed that Rana was still alive and left dozens of voicemail messages on her phone begging for forgiveness.
Peter realised that Carla was seriously unwell but when he tried to coax her to the medical centre she gave him the slip and disappeared. After spending time in a squat on her childhood estate and staying at the Riverlands Hotel , Carla returned to Roy's flat, now believing that Kate was deliberately hiding Rana and the rest of her family and friends were out to get her.
When Roy called an ambulance and had Carla taken to hospital, she turned on him too and claimed Peter was the only one she trusted. Following an assessment by a psychiatrist and a social worker, Carla was given antipsychotic medication and discharged from hospital. As Carla was still wary of Roy, he moved out of the cafe flat and allowed Peter to move in to help look after Carla. Secretly, Carla stopped taking her medication and her paranoia increased coupled with hallucinations.
After attempting to jump from the top of a fire escape in Victoria Street, Carla was taken back to hospital and sectioned. Carla grew up on a rough estate, raised by an alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather. When she grew up, Carla eschewed that lifestyle, marrying Paul Connor and all but cutting her family out of her life.
She alleviated her guilt by sending her mum expensive gifts. When she first appeared in Coronation Street in , Carla was Paul's WAG-type wife; dressed in the latest designer gear, she was kept in relative luxury by Paul in their modern apartment in Weatherfield Quays. However, she was a bright woman and aspired to succeed as a businesswoman, leading her to start her own firm making childrenswear, which served as a stepping stone to her taking over Underworld.
As a factory boss in the rag trade, Carla's strengths are her no-nonsense but approachable management style, and her dab handling of prospective customers, especially of the male variety. Her combination of wining and dining the client and flirting while projecting confidence in her business and products have kept the factory alive in difficult times, and two men she agreed to marry, Tony Gordon and Frank Foster , started out as Underworld customers.
However, as those examples prove, when she mixes business with pleasure the factory always suffers; she also trained her boyfriends Trevor Dean and Peter Barlow as managers despite their lack of experience, with neither appointment bearing fruit.
Although she is a tough boss, Carla cares about her work force and has always been there for her machinists during times of need. She supported Sally Webster when she confided in Carla that she had breast cancer in and has since helped Hayley and Sinead Tinker through their own illnesses. With her raspy voice and jet-black hair, Carla is an attractive woman who has had many husbands but she counts few people as friends and forges a lonely life. She is led by her heart and doesn't consider married men out of bounds if she can convince herself that their love is greater.
Her attempts to lure Liam Connor and Peter Barlow away from their wives demonstrate her bitchy side. When her heart is broken, Carla falls apart and self-pity takes over. Her usual method of coping with grief, emotional or otherwise, is by downing the nearest bottle of red wine. Carla has no maternal side to her and has never wanted children.
One of her biggest challenges was acting as a mother figure to Simon Barlow ; on Simon's birthday, she laid on an adult buffet for the party, much to Peter's embarrassment. Despite this her relationship with Simon improved over time and she remained close to him even after her and Peter separated.
Carla didn't discover that Johnny was her father until Carla knew Johnny Connor when she was growing up, as she was friendly with his children and especially the children of his cousin Barry who lived near Johnny on the nicer part of the estate. Carla wasn't particularly close to Johnny and had no idea that he was her biological father following an affair with her mother Sharon.
Carla lost contact with Johnny and his children after she married Paul and moved away from the estate. Johnny came into Carla's life again in October after his son Aidan stole money from him to buy into Underworld.
Johnny demanded his money back and when Aidan was unable to pay him, he laid claim to Aidan's share of the factory and took on a share of the hands on day to day running, bringing him closer to Carla. When Carla's imprisoned brother Rob became aware of this, he attempted to blackmail Johnny with the knowledge that he was Carla's biological father. Johnny conducted a formal DNA test and in order to avoid Rob's blackmail, told Carla the truth himself.
Johnny regretted not being a part of Carla's life sooner as he always suspected she could be his daughter but had never known for certain. Carla and Johnny slowly built a relationship although Carla continues to refer to him by his first name and has an equally close relationship with Roy Cropper who had already grown into a father figure for Carla before she was reunited with Johnny.
Regardless, Carla and Johnny lean on each other in times of trouble, such as in the aftermath of Aidan's suicide. Growing up in a rough estate, Carla was very close to her brother Rob Donovan. They loved their mother Sharon , hated their stepfather George , and looked out for each other. As a teenager, Carla got on with Rob's girlfriends and consoled them when he broke their hearts. Rob turned bitter towards Carla when she married Paul Connor and left the family home, never looking back.
Rob was left to cope with their mother and her problems by himself and whenever he saw Carla he would get at her for not doing her share. When he got out in July , Rob turned up at Underworld to surprise Carla. He announced his arrival by breaking up a row between Carla and Peter Barlow and pinning Peter against a wall. Carla didn't want Rob around as she was bored of his sob stories but when he showed her the business qualification he obtained in prison, she was persuaded to give him a managerial job at the factory.
Rob always felt that he was owed something by Carla and resented her success. In December , after spending a year trying to score points off her, Rob gave his blessing to Carla marrying Peter, apologised for his past transgressions, and agreed to give her away.
During Carla's rocky marriage to Peter, Rob had Carla's back, though their newfound closeness was destroyed completely when Carla shopped Rob to the police for murdering Tina McIntyre.
Carla first visited Rob in prison in January , just after she had found out that Johnny Connor was her real father and that Rob had been blackmailing him. Rob tried to use Carla to get to Johnny but, sickened by his attempt to blame her for him being in prison, Carla told her brother not to look her up this time when he got out, and walked off.
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