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Stars such as Kylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia and Martine McCutcheon have all launched a music career off the back of starring in a soap, but there now seems to be a reverse trend emerging of pop stars wanting to become soap stars.
Former ‘X Factor’ winner Shayne Ward is the latest singer to sign up for a role in one of the country’s much-loved drama serials, after he joined the ‘Coronation Street’ castas a cousin of Michelle and Carla Connor.
And he’s not the only ex singer to try their hand at the whole acting malarky as this lot prove…