CORONATION STREET
PHOTOS ITV/MARK BRUCE
Soap history was made when Coronation Street characters Kate and Rana were caught mid-romp in the back of a van, partially dressed, the air still sizzling with their forbidden passion. It may be 23 years since Beth and Margaret locked lips on Brookside, marking the UK’s first ever pre-watershed lesbian kiss, but in this instantly iconic and highly meme-able moment, actresses Faye Brookes and Bhavna Limbachia proved that a snog still has the power to capture people’s hearts. The angst-filled secret romance between the friends-turned-loversturned- best-soap-couple-on-the-box has me and millions of other viewers hooked. So naturally, as a proud gay Northerner who grew up watching Corrie, I’m over the moon when I get the chance to speak to the stars behind soapland’s must-see sapphic storyline. First thing’s first, let’s talk about that steamy back-of-thetruck tryst.