10. One cast member didn’t renew their contract because of a storyline
Janet Dibley, who played Lorna Cartwright from July 1997 to April 1998, turned down a £130,000 pay offer from the BBC to continue playing the character.
Janet Dibley as Lorna Cartwright
This was after Dibley discovered they were planning to turn her character into a prostitute, who was then to be gang raped.
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It would have been the first time the soap had shown such an attack, but Dibley feared the “harrowing scenes” would lead to her 6-year-old son being taunted.
