Biography
Born as Julie Kemp; her parents divorced when she was a toddler, and her mother then married William Goodyear, changing Julie's surname to Goodyear upon her marriage.
Her private life - multiple marriages, scandals, claims of lesbianism - have made her off-screen life as colourful as her on-screen life. Famously, a cartoon appeared in the British newspaper the Daily Mail, which had the director of Coronation Street ripping up the script and saying "Forget the script - just keep talking about your private life."
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1996 New Year Honours, "for services to television drama".
Her autobiography entitled Just Julie was released on 3 November 2006. In it she talks about her relationships with men and women. Among her many partners was the late Justin Fashanu, the bisexual footballer who played for clubs including Norwich City and Nottingham Forest, who was nearly 20 years her junior. They were together for a time in the early 1990s, several years before Fashanu committed suicide.
In 1979 Julie left Coronation Street for the second of three times after being diagnosed with cervical cancer, something she kept secret from the public for 25 years. Following her private battle she founded a charity which resulted in formation of the Julie Goodyear Cancer Screening Centre.
Goodyear has been married three times and has a son by her first husband.
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