One of Mike’s knicker-stitchers, feisty Kelly has a liking for short skirts, high heels and startling shades of eyeshadow. A tearaway in her early years, she once did a stretch in prison and her big gob often gets her into trouble.
2004 Quits her job at Mike’s factory to get married abroad, but leaves her fiancé before the wedding and begs back her job. Nearly has a fling with married factory boss Danny Baldwin.
2005 Starts dating cabbie Lloyd but is furious to discover he’s seeing another woman and nearly kills him by spiking his drink with a massive dose of laxatives. Wins £2,500 on a scratchcard, but gets mugged.
2006 Reluctantly helps out old acquaintance Becky Grainger, who then sets her up for theft. Dumps Lloyd after he encourages her to plead guilty to reduce her sentence rather than prove her innocence and has one-night stand with Steve McDonald.
Born on 13 December 1977, Tupele grew up in Preston, Lancashire with parents Reg and Margaret, a nurse. She worked in a pub in London’s Soho for several years between acting jobs and has appeared in Casualty and the West End musical Mamma Mia. Tupele currently lives in Manchester.
