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Each month, All About Manchester speaks to a high profile celebrity with a connection to Manchester.

Sally Lindsay

How do you get a theatre audience in the noughties to care about a highly incompetent mother in the fifties? The Royal Exchange Theatre has found the answer to this question in the form of Manchester actress Sally Lindsay. The 35-year-old bubbly blonde, who became a household name as Shelly Unwin in Coronation Street, has been cast in the role of roving mother Helen in Shelagh Delaney's iconic Salford drama A Taste of Honey. Appealing to the audience's sense of empathy as Helen may not be easy, but the actress tells All About Manchester she will give it her best shot.

Jusin Moorhouse

After making a splash at this year's Edinburgh Festival, Manchester comic Justin Moorhouse is now touring with his critically acclaimed new show. On the eve of his Manchester Comedy Festival date, the 38-year-old father of two talks to All About Manchester about friendship, fear and why rude people aren't funny.

Mike MccLean

If you've ever watched daytime TV you probably know his face from kids' shows on Nickelodeon to Channel 4's Big Breakfast and Richard and Judy, Mike MccLean has done it all. Now, the cheeky presenter from Levenshulme has returned home after a 14-year absence to host Xfm's Breakfast Show. On a grey Mancunian morning, he talks to All About Manchester about rising early and spreading the cheer.

Louise Dearman

Stepping into the shoes of Eva Peron is a daunting task, but one that Louise Dearman is managing with flying colours in Bill Kenwright’s new stage musical Evita. The fabulous leading lady talks to All About Manchester about playing one of the most fascinating women in history.

Mike Walker

The late Tony Wilson once told this magazine that jazz was dead and smelled funny. Wilson was a great man and we had enormous respect for him, but he obviously didn’t know jack about jazz. World-class jazz guitarist Mike Walker sets the record straight.

Marti Pellow

From Wet Wet Wet frontman to solo jazz artist and stage musical actor, Marti Pellow has proven time and time again that he is not afraid to take risks in his career. We catch up with him on the press launch of his new show, The Witches of Eastwick.

Maxine Peake

From slacker Twinkle in Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies to the brassy Veronica in Shameless and the cold blooded Myra Hindley in See No Evil, Maxine Peake has gone to great lengths to avoid being typecast. This spring, as she prepares to star in the Royal Exchange Theatre's production of The Children's Hour, she tells All About Manchester she is returning to her roots in more ways than one.

Paula McNamara

As Fashion Weekend Manchester approaches, Andrew Watson catches up with award-winning local fashion stylist and illustrator Paula McNamara to find out what it takes to survive in her cut-throat industry.

Carlos Acosta

From breakdancing in the backstreets of Havana to conquering the world of international ballet, Carlos Acosta is as famous for his rags-to-riches story as for his prodigious talent.

Simon Webbe

As one quarter of cheeky pop outfit Blue, Mancunian singer/songwriter Simon Webbe was used to arenas packed with screaming teenagers. But as he embarks on his first ever tour as a solo artist, he tells All About Manchester he is ready to stand on his own feet.

Val McDermid

Multi-award-winning crime writer Val McDermid (Wire in the Blood, The Last Temptation, A Place of Execution) was born in Scotland but made Manchester her adopted home. We catch up with her for a quick chat before her hotly anticipated appearance in queerupnorth.

Jon Christos

His looks are Greek, his accent Mancunian and his voice, well his voice is just out of this world. As Jon Christos prepares for his first big solo concert in Manchester, he retraces his steps from Salford's terraces to international concert halls.

Georgia Taylor

She shot to fame as Toyah Battersby in Coronation Street, but since quitting the ITV soap Georgia Taylor has spread her wings wider, proving there is life (and fame) after Weatherfield.

Flic Everett

She is most famous for her sex tips but relationship guru Flic Everett also knows a thing or to about showing your kids a good time in Manchester.

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