80s superstar Marti Pellow joined forces with some of the Coronation Street cast for a very special cause.
30 years after Marti Pellow’s rendition of Love Is All Around, he’s collaborating with ITV presenter Lorraine Kelly to release a new charity single, alongside a choir of women who discovered they had breast cancer after watching her chat show.
During Tuesday’s instalment, Marti was seen with his arm around Corrie actress Sally Dynevor (Sally Metcalfe) alongside Claire Sweeney (Cassie Plummer) and Sally Carman (Abi Webster).
‘Change + Check is a really important campaign and in Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this is all so fantastic,’ Sally said.
Claire added: ‘A while ago I started getting pains in my breast, I went and got a mammogram and thankfully I was fine but recently one of my closest friends, she was getting a different sensation.
‘She went and got checked and unfortunately she did have cancer. I think women need to be aware whether it’s a pain or a sensation, just go with your instinct and get it checked.’
For the last six years, ITV’s breakfast programme Lorraine has promoted the Change And Check campaign to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of breast cancer.
Last year’s single, Golden, with Joss Stone and the Change And Check choir went to number one in the UK singles downloads chart.
Reflecting on this year’s charity single, Lorraine said: ‘It was fantastic because we were in a proper, real, true recording studio.’
She added: ‘It was joyful, and the fact that we’re all in it together, this amazing sisterhood along with Marti. It just felt very, very, very special.
“And Marti said, “You will feel at the end of this something really positive and very emotional”. And it really was, there were a lot of tears.’
Marti, 59, former lead vocalist of Wet Wet Wet, told PA: ‘We were at a place called Rak Studios, which has made so many incredible records over the years, massive, huge selling records.
‘It really is up there with Abbey Road and for us to go there to Rak Studios and capture that moment, it was a joy.’
