Jennie Elizabeth McAlpine (born 12 February 1984) is a British
television actress, comedian and businesswoman. She is best known for
her role as Fiz Brown in the soap opera Coronation Street. She also
took part in season 17 of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in
2017, where she came in fourth place.McAlpine was born and grew up in
Bury. She is of Scottish and Irish descent, with a grandfather from
County Kerry and a grandmother from County Sligo. As a young girl she
used to put on shows on the patio for the neighbours, charging them 50
pence apiece. She did song and dance routines, copying groups like
Bananarama.Her father Thomas McAlpine worked in mental health and was
awarded the OBE for services to mental healthcare; he died in March
2017. With his encouragement she took up amateur dramatics at the age
of eight, when father and daughter appeared together in a pantomime by
the Bury Parish Players. She was the fairy and he was the dame. As a
teenager she joined the Carol Godby Theatre Workshop. McAlpine's
parents separated when she was young after which she lived with her
father. She has one brother.
television actress, comedian and businesswoman. She is best known for
her role as Fiz Brown in the soap opera Coronation Street. She also
took part in season 17 of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in
2017, where she came in fourth place.McAlpine was born and grew up in
Bury. She is of Scottish and Irish descent, with a grandfather from
County Kerry and a grandmother from County Sligo. As a young girl she
used to put on shows on the patio for the neighbours, charging them 50
pence apiece. She did song and dance routines, copying groups like
Bananarama.Her father Thomas McAlpine worked in mental health and was
awarded the OBE for services to mental healthcare; he died in March
2017. With his encouragement she took up amateur dramatics at the age
of eight, when father and daughter appeared together in a pantomime by
the Bury Parish Players. She was the fairy and he was the dame. As a
teenager she joined the Carol Godby Theatre Workshop. McAlpine's
parents separated when she was young after which she lived with her
father. She has one brother.
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