Career After Coronation Street
In 1996 she signed a deal for commercials for Shredded Wheat. Other work included filming a pilot of The Julie Goodyear Show for Granada, presenting Live Time on the Granada Breeze network, and being a DJ on Manchester Talk Radio. In 2001 she appeared in the BBC television comedy sketch series Revolver. In 2004 she won the first series of the Living TV reality TV show, I'm Famous and Frightened!.
In 2005, she was one of the celebrities taking part in the popular ITV1 reality TV series, Celebrity Fit Club, alongside friend Ken Morley. She was originally made team captain but quit the role after six weeks, the role was taken over by Aldo Zilli. She lost 1 stone 10 pounds, and her team won the show. She shocked everyone at the final weigh-in by announcing that in 1979/80 she was given a year to live, having been diagnosed with cervical cancer, from which she was to make a full recovery.
She appeared in the reality shows Road Raja, Age Swap, Celebrity Penthouse and Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes as Marlene Dietrich. She had a small role in the British film Tug of War (2006) and in October 2006 played a brief role in Channel 4's Hollyoaks as Mrs. Temple, owner of a B&B. She recently participated in a Coronation Street special of Come Dine With Me
In October 2009 it was confirmed that she would be starring in Calendar Girls onstage. She appeared in the show for about three weeks before dropping out due to an unspecified virus.
On 15 August 2012 Goodyear became a housemate on Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother 10 she was evicted on 5 September 2012 in a Double Eviction on Day 22 along with Lorenzo Borghese.
Goodyear confirmed in an interview to New! magazinethat she will "never" return to Coronation Street due to her being a "perfectionist" and the schedules are too "gruelling".
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