#CakeGate: UK Soap actress asks for free cakes, gets exposed by bakery
Ex-'Coronation Street' actress Catherine Tyldesley claims she's suffered 'horrendous' online abuse amid allegations that she tried to leverage her fame for free baked goods. https://t.co/zrh8Vc0YcO
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) August 2, 2023
Catherine Tyldesley, who starred in the UK soap Coronation Street from 2011-2018, had an events agency, NVRLND, ask a small business (Three Birds Bakery) for free cakes. In return, she'd 'provide exposure to 700k followers and mention them in OK Magazine'.
The bakery was obviously not happy, so went public with the email they received and their response, stating that 'exposure wouldn't pay their mortgage or for their employees to feed their kids.'
Catherine then claimed she had 'no idea the emails were being sent' and was annoyed that 'journalists were showing up at her door', but she 'hopes the company got the exposure they were looking for'.
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the events company referring to her as a 'well-known celebrity' is the definition of lying on your CV