Career: Nicholls was a regular fixture on TV during the 1970s and 1980s with roles in Dixon of Dock Green, Not on Your Nellie, Rentaghost, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Gentle Touch and Up the Elephant and Round the Castle. After playing Audrey on a recurring basis for six years on Coronation Street following the character's debut in 1979, she became a permanent member of the cast in 1985 and has remained with the show ever since. On the stage, she toured America and Canada in 1976 with the Royal Shakespeare Company in London Assurance.

Career: Biggins made his TV debut in a 1971 episode of sitcom Doctor at Large, and has been making audiences laugh ever since. There have been forays into drama with the likes of I, Claudius, The Duchess of Duke Street, Poldark and Upstairs, Downstairs, but his gregarious nature has been put to good use in a variety of comedies. Among his most famous projects are Porridge, Rentaghost, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Cluedo and Psychoville. He was also a co-host on Cilla Black's Surprise Surprise. Biggins won the 2007 series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! His most recent big-screen credit is the critically panned Britflick Run For Your Wife, and he continues to appear on stage in both plays and panto.