Overview

• Jones rose to fame as Karen McDonald on Coronation Street from 2000 until 2004 before earning acclaim in dramas such as Scott & Bailey, Gentlemen Jack and Doctor Foster.
• She told The Times she would readily accept a one-off return if ITV invited her, saying, “If they asked, I’d say, ‘Why not?’”
• Her hint arrives as Coronation Street copes with the recent exits of long-serving cast members such as Helen Worth and Sally Ann Matthews.
• She is promoting Hostage, her first political thriller for Netflix, which marks her expansion into new genres.
• Jones also admitted she would be “scared to play the Doctor,” declining to take on the lead in Doctor Who out of concern over its pressures.