CORRIE’S
mail-order bride has joined The Bill — as its first Chinese detective.
Actress Wendy Kweh will storm into Sun Hill as no-nonsense DC Suzie Sim.
Wendy, appears in the ITV1 drama on September 22.
She said: “Suzie will trample on anyone who gets in her way. She is an advocate for tough love and a really feisty character.”
In Corrie, Wendy, 29, had Fred Elliott spluttering more than his usual “I say” when she turned up as young Thai bride Lily Stokes, who had married Mike Baldwin’s dodgy pal Dennis Stokes.
She then persuaded lonely Fred (John Savident) that a Far East girl 40 years his junior would suit him too.
Butcher Fred was introduced to another internet bride, named Orchid. But just as he was about to show her his Weatherfield sausage, Orchid spun a web of lies and conned him out of £5,000.
As DC Sim, Wendy makes an impressive start at Sun Hill when she is teamed up with trainee DC Gary Best (Ciaran Griffiths) and bullies him into doing things her way.
British TV’s last hit oriental cop was back in the early 1980s when David Yip starred in the BBC drama The Chinese Detective.