I wish she had still been around when Becky and Carla came along... Becky for the affair with Steve, and Carla as factory boss.

Exhausted?? Try working 8 hours a day on a building sute

@@markmorris7123 I do work in building sites and often work 7.30 to 5.30 or 7 to 6. I'm not comparing jobs though. I'm saying acting very intense scenes like Suranne had so many of would certainly be an exhausting task amid having to learn huge amounts of dialogue. Mike Reid [Frank from Eastenders] had to leave it in the 90s as he was doing a depression story amid his character's decline into a mental breakdown. Playing such intense scenes had an effect of Reid's own mental health and he had to be written out as he himself started suffering depression. Bill Treacher [ Arthur Fowler] said he too was playing a depression storyline and it affected his mental health and he'd go home in the evenings and cry some nights it was so draining on him and left him mentally exhausted. Furthermore, Michelle Ryan [Zoe Slater] had to be written out of Eastenders for several months in 2002 under doctors orders she admitted because it was during the era when the Slaters were heavily featured and she was playing very intense scenes and it began to affect her mental health and left her exhausted. Rowena Wallace who played Pat the Rat in Sons and Daughters said the same. Her character was a drunk and drug addict and Wallace said she was doing so many emotionally heavy scenes that it left her exhausted and she had to leave in the end. I've never acted myself but I can imagine if you were playing heavy emotional scenes day after day over a long term storyline arc it definitely would spill into your own life. You can't just switch it off. It stays with you.

@@markmorris7123 Site. You mean building SITE

Suranne Jones probably had other roles lined up as she did alot of stuff after corrie and still does.

Steve shouldn't of slept about

@@kell90 true think he drove her half nuts ......

@@kell90 they were split up when Amy was conceived and Karen had cheated on him with Joe Carter before this.

@Y Marw I know it's only a soap but they both as bad as each other then

Your wrong

The TARDIS!

@Abbie Hazel Florence Hunter yea because the writers exhausted Steve's repetitive story line of drifting from 1 woman to the next so paired him with Tracey as there was nothing else to do with him rather than find him another woman. For much of 2005 though after Karen left, Steve repeatedly rejected Tracey's advances though until she got bored and finally moved on. If somebody better came along though Steve wouldn't think twice about abandoning her.

Shane Folan Tracy and Steve are actually good together though.

@@msmilano7091 with those pathetic schemes ?

@@jaredporikos2197 for all her bravado I think Tracy has always genuinely liked Steve. And Amy has knocked a bit more sense into Tracy over the years.

@@kaysmith8992 Yes that's true ! I like how Amy was like this bitch , my mom is gonna learn

I agree. He’s amazing in this scene.

no Karen was in the wrong here, steve stood by her for months but karen wouldn't trust him and drove him away- she destroyed her marriage herself with her paranoia and obsession over tracey who steve would never have looked at twice.

Well his father is Jim McDonald what do you expect

It's all Tracy doing this Tracy did this to Becky I think steve is bad man Steve in the wrong not Karen poor Karen

Don't go with Steve because Tracy cause trouble for you I don't like Steve any way

@@emmadavies9898 I hate him to

Lol

Tracy did cause Karen to become absolutely insane with jealousy, with her constant jibes and manipulations. Didn;t mean she got her man, (at the time), but she succeeded in destroying Karen really

Karen should have been the better person and rose above it and let Steve be a dad which she could see deep down but she choice to try ignore it. She destroyed herself just as much

She had her chances to walk when she found out Steve was Amy's dad. She cant have it all her own way and expect eternal roses

@@natalievitale1371 I loved that Karen did that Tracy , Tracy had it coming

Team Karen

Steves an idiot who only thinks with his c0¢k so I'm glad she left him. She deserved alot better than him

And its repeating with Michelle

@Ak Am I would hope they would have teamed up though , and Michelle that why they could destory steves life

Becky was a cool character though

@@tracygrant7931 yyyyyyyaaaasss

Very true. Big similarities between Karen and Becky. Becky is from the same part of South Yorkshire as me, a small old mining town called Barnsley

as much chance of Suranne Jones coming back than there is of Paris Hilton winning an Oscar.

I think Karen and Steve actually got married for a bet, if I remember

stemple 11100 , Team Karen

TheJoker27780 she was a mean mean person

@@maxwelljohnson5028 team Karen

Karen could be selfish and aggressive, but I liked her directness and loyalty. Tracy destroyed her basically.

@@mattylamb9194 no Karen destroyed Karen, her insecurity ruined her.

@@shanefolan Team Karen

@@shanefolan Tracy was asking for that anyway

Steve chucked her out and Karen accepted that their marriage was over and left.

Shes been in loads of stuff.. Doctor Foster and Gentlemen Jack just to name a few ..they're recent programmes to and both very good

@@natalievitale1371 lol sorry i was being sarcastic as shes obviously really successfull

🤣🤣 fair play

@@AlexGarrickActress Ha sarcasm doesn't always translate well on paper as it's hard to sense the tone.

Haha

"You finished?"

She cheated on Steve first with Joe Carter, and Amy was conceived when Steve and Karen were split up.

@@ymarw1684 no steve had the one night stand with the girl and she left him for Joe. In fairness, she told Steve she wouldn't cheat on her marriage and she didn't.

Tracy was going to spend Christmas with Peter, but left Amy in the car to quickly get something. Karen took that opportunity to steal the car and set fire to it, letting Tracy and Steve assume she’d done it with her inside and killed her, when actually Karen just wanted to torch the car, but when she discovered Amy was there, she torched it but then secretly took her to Roy.

@@alfienaylor1587I know now but thank you for explaining it to me 😊

Sorry not sorey Karen not Karon