Coronation Street star Julie Goodyear has finally sold her eccentric £1.3million mansion after knocking a whopping £200,000 off the asking price.
The actress, 82, who played Bet Lynch on the soap from 1970 to 1995, put her four-bedroom farmhouse up for sale back in October for £1.5million.
Julie shares the mansion in Heywood, Greater Manchester, with her husband Scott Brand, 55 – however the couple decided to sell up and relocate amid her battle with dementia.
She soon dropped the price by £100,000 lowering its asking to £1.4million, before knocking a further £100,000 off in December with the farmhouse listed at offers over £1.3million.
Now it’s been reported by The Sun that Julie has finally sold the eccentric mansion – which heavily features leopard print with the print seen on an armchair, a huge rug and even a leopard cuddly toy sat on the sofa.
Julie announced her devastating dementia diagnosis in June of last year but it was claimed by a friend back in June that she is ‘living a good life’.
Coronation Street star Julie Goodyear has finally sold her eccentric £1.3million mansion after knocking a whopping £200,000 off the asking price (Seen in 2011)
Now it’s been reported by The Sun that Julie has finally sold the eccentric mansion – which heavily features leopard print
She is said to still love leopard print just like her iconic character Bet Lynch and regularly enjoys afternoon tea with visitors.
Julie is famed for playing the leopard-print loving Rovers Return landlady for over 25 years, starting in the role in 1966.
Her friend Mark Llewellin, who was the partner of Julie’s late co-star Roy Barraclough, spoke about his regular visits to see her on the Conversation Street podcast.
Saying: ‘Julie is living a good life, really. She still loves leopard print, I’m pleased to say’.
‘I see her at least once a week, sometimes twice a week, and spend a few hours with her and have afternoon tea at her house, which I call leopard print boulevard’.
He went on to describe her as ‘quite happy’ and said how she goes out of the house regularly.
He quipped: ‘I take her chocolate cake on a Sunday and we tuck into that, well she doesn’t let me have any to be honest’.
‘She’s good, obviously she has dementia as everybody knows, but it’s wrong to say you suffer from dementia, you live with dementia
Julie shares the mansion in Heywood, Greater Manchester, with her husband Scott Brand, 55 – however the couple decided to sell up and relocate amid her battle with dementia (Seen with Scott in 2023)
The actress, 82, who played Bet Lynch on the soap from 1970 to 1995, put her four-bedroom farmhouse up for sale back in October for £1.5million
Before adding: ‘It changes what you can do and how you look at life, I think Julie has been very brave and strong about that’.
However earlier this year husband Scott said Julie had abandoned her trademark leopard print outfits and colourful lipsticks when he opened up on the pain of watching her deteriorate.
Speaking to The Mirror, he said: ‘I miss the fun-loving wife that Julie had always been – the larger-than-life personality that brightened up everywhere she went, and the smile that lit up every room.
‘All of this is now slowly fading away and it’s extremely painful for me to watch this deterioration.’
He added: ‘Julie has always been extremely glamorous, going nowhere without her makeup.
‘But now the lipsticks and make-up go unworn, and clothes are no longer of interest, especially the leopard print.’
Scott said that he misses the activities they used to enjoy, such as romantic meals and long walks, with the hardest being unable to go on holidays together anymore.
Her love of leopard print is evident in snaps of the mansion’s interior
He got candid about the hardships he faced as Julie’s sole carer at the beginning, admitting it was ‘killing me’.
Scott, who gave up his career to be Julie’s full time carer, explained that he has now become aware of the small freedoms he used to take for granted.
He said that going to watch the football with friends or having a drink were no longer options, as everything has to be planned far in advance and he needs to always be sober in case there’s an emergency and he has to drive.
He said: ‘For me, the hardest part was accepting and coming to terms with the diagnosis. At the beginning I refused to accept any support, thinking I could cope as we have always been quite private people.’
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