Glenda Shuttleworth is rather unlucky in love on ITV soap Coronation Street but in real life actress Jodie Prenger is loved-up with her long-term fiancé

Coronation Street’s Glenda Shuttleworth has had her fair share of failed romances on the cobbles, but actress Jodie Prenger’s love life is very different off camera.

Jodie first joined the long-running ITV soap in 2022, rocking up to the cobbles as Glenda Shuttleworth, daughter of Archie (Roy Hudd) and brother to George (Tony Maudsley).

Since then, she has become a firm favourite and has settled into Weatherfield life, bagging herself a job at The Rovers Return. However, Glenda’s love life hasn’t been a walk in the park, including a short-lived fling with Michael Bailey (Ryan Russell).

Away from the ITV soap though, Jodie is engaged to businessman Simon Booth whom she started dating in 2010 after being friends for several years.

Jodie joined the soap a few years ago

At the time, Jodie shared her joy at meeting Simon after a string of failed relationships. She told Belfast Telegraph: “In real life I’ve been like a magnet to prats and Peter Pans who’ve caused me problems!

Jodie then spoke about her romance with Simon and said: “I’ve known him as a friend for a long while and we started dating about six months ago. He’s wonderful, sensitive and it just hits you like a ton of bricks when you meet someone who ticks all the right boxes.”

She has been with Simon for years

Going from strength to strength, in 2012 Jodie and Simon got engaged. Recalling the special day, she told The Sunday Post in 2017: “It was St Patrick’s Day 2012 in an Irish oyster bar. That year I’d been invited to Buckingham Palace on St Valentine’s Day for Charles Dickens’ bicentenary alongside Cameron, Rowan Atkinson and lots of others. I had it in my mind Simon was going to propose on the day I’d met the Queen.

“We went to the restaurant but he didn’t ask, which was a real shock. But when we were back on St Patrick’s Day, at the same table, when I wasn’t expecting it, he proposed.”

She added: “I found out he had actually had it all prepared a while before in Ireland with a choir booked and everything and had to cancel it when I had to fly to Australia to film the I’m A Celebrity spin-off show.”

Her character’s had a dramatic love life(Image: ITV)

However, Jodie and Simon’s love story became tainted with heartbreak when Jodie’s dad Marty sadly died of kidney cancer in March 2012.

Unsurprisingly, Jodie felt a mix of emotions during this time in her life. She told Hello! magazine in 2012: “I’m just so glad Dad knew I was going to be taken care of. Dad loved Simon like a son and always said I’d be safe with him. Simon’s a good man with a good soul, just like my dad.”

In recent years, animal-loving actress Jodie and Simon moved to a farm where they have a menagerie of animals, including cows and chickens. She previously told OK!: “I’m sure a nice calm life would be lovely, but I prefer to be outside feeding the chickens and the cows.

“I do love putting a posh frock on for a fancy social event, but I know what makes me happiest and that’s the animals, even if I am smelling of chicken poo half the time!”