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Pat was the very first Coronation Street resident to become a subject of This Is Your Life - surprised on the set of the soap - outside number 11 - when Eamonn swapped places with her screen (and later real-life) husband Alan Browning, while recording a scene which also included Peter Adamson.
Among Pat's guests is comedian Sandy Powell.
Shirley Bassey, singer, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at Heathrow Airport.
Shirley was born the youngest of seven children, in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, and after leaving school found work in a local factory packing saucepans, boosting her income by singing in local pubs and clubs in the evenings and at weekends. She signed her first professional contract in 1953, and within a few years was touring Britain and achieving chart success with recordings such as Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me and As I Love You.
Warren Mitchell, actor, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the City Lit Institute in London, while playing the saxophone. Warren studied physical chemistry at University College, Oxford, where he met his contemporary, Richard Burton, and together they joined the Royal Air Force in 1944. After the war Warren attended RADA for two years, performing in the evening with London's Unity Theatre, and he soon became established as a versatile professional actor with straight and comedy roles on stage, radio, film and television. In the 1960s, he rose to prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, created by Johnny Speight - a role which won him a Best Television Actor BAFTA in 1967.
