Trivia

"Deirdre Hunt" (Anne Kirkbride) first appeared on Coronation Street (1960) in 1972 and it was 2 years later that the writers decided to introduce her mother, Blanche, in the build up to her marriage to "Ray Langton" (Neville Buswell).

Sadly, the actress chosen to play the part, Patricia Cutts, took her own life on 6 September 1974 and the part had to be hurriedly re-cast, and Maggie Jones got the role that she has since made so much her own.

Studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made her stage debut in the late 1950s.

Is one of 11 Coronation Street (1960) actors to have won a Best Comedy Performance Award at the British Soap Awards; the others are John Savident, Sue Nicholls, Malcolm Hebden, Andrew Whyment, Craig Gazey, Patti Clare, Stephanie Cole, Simon Gregson, Sally Dynevor and Dolly-Rose Campbell.

Shared a birthday with her Coronation Street (1960) co-star Anne Kirkbride, who played her daughter on the show.

Her Coronation Street (1960) character Blanche Hunt was a mother, a grandmother and a great grandmother whereas Jones never had children in real life.

Often playing much older than her years; she was two years younger than William Roache, who played her on-screen son-in-law in Coronation Street (1960), and less than five years older than Gwen Taylor, whose mother she played in The White Wedding (1989).