This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today being Thursday the 30th of July.

And that joyful news that the papers told us that Sarah Harding will not be appearing again in Coronation Street.

The character was only in there briefly.

They have no intention of bringing the

character back. I think they've also realised that their experiment and what basis it came in on,

I've got no idea. I can only assume they must have thought, oh, Sarah Harding, she gets loads of

coverage in the paper. People will be watching her. They were, and that's where it all fell apart.

That's where everybody realized that poor Sarah Harding

couldn't act for Toffee. She was so wooden. She didn't know where her accident was. It was just,

it was absolutely dreadful. It was so pitiful. But the people we felt sorry for were the established

actors in there, the people who do this day in, day out, they don't get any coverage. There's lots of

characters in there who do not get the coverage in the newspapers that Sarah Harding gets.

She has, really, it was just a complete waste of time because every single critic that we read

on the program were saying exactly the same thing. She's dragged the program down. It's an

experiment that's gone badly wrong. And the

badly wrong bit is that she can't act. And if you put somebody in there who can't act against a

load of people who can act, they stand out even more. If she'd been put in there next to some

people who sort of really couldn't string two words together, then she might have looked half decent. But of course, because they're all expert, I bet they're clapping and cheering and

whooping. And I bet some of the older members have cast, they'd never admit it. But I bet if

you got them a bit tidily and you said to them, so what did you think about Sarah Harding?

They'd be going, I'm glad she's gone. Put it that way. she came with a lot of baggage you know i think she thought she was

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