10 things I treasure: Suranne Jones

SURANNE JONES is one of TV’s best known and most popular actresses.

Her big breakthrough was as Corrie’s Sally McDonald, which she played for four years.

But Suranne, 37, has shown her versatility since in dramas such as Unforgiven, Single Father, Crimson Field and Scott & Bailey.

Her latest venture is Doctor Foster, a five-part series about a GP who suspects her husband is having an affair and uncovers secrets that shake her to the core. It starts on BBC 1 on September 9.

Suranne, who celebrates her first wedding anniversary with husband Laurence this month, shares her 10 favourite things in their new London home.ET TOYWhen you’re moving you find all sorts of things you’d forgotten about. I came across a fluffy

ET toy from when I was three.

His eyes are all scratched and he looks a bit careworn. I’d thrown him in a bin in my old office but he’s now out of the bin, been through the washing machine and is treasured again.

I haven’t kept many other toys, so he’s my earliest possession and I obviously loved him because there are loads of photos of me with him in my dad’s loft.

Suranne and Oliver Farnworth in Beautiful Thing (Haydn West / PA)GARRARD NECKLACEWhen my mum’s mum, nana Bertha, died I was left some money and I bought this necklace in her memory.

When I was packing up I opened the original box in a drawer and when the necklace wasn’t in it I got in a panic. But thankfully I found it.

It’s a very sweet cross with a diamond in the centre and it always reminds me of my nana.STEVE AND KAREN PICTUREI played Steve McDonald’s wife in Coronation Street and one of the actresses did pop art paintings of some of the cast.

She did one of Karen and Steve which has a speech balloon coming out of his mouth saying: “Half the Street think you’re a nutter, the other half think you’re a slag. I think you’re both.” It’s a line from the show and it’s lovely memory of my time there.

I have it hanging in my kitchen.MY FOUR-SEATER SOFAI must have had this for 15 years. It’s been to three houses and each time the removal men have said they couldn’t get it through the door.

I always thought: ‘Oh please get it in,’ because it’s just my favourite thing.

It’s so big that two people can lie on it and watch telly. My husband and I often spend an evening curled up doing just that and then fall asleep because it’s so comfy, it’s like a bed.

It’s fabric which used to be cream but is now more beige and it probably needs some springs and re-upholstering but despite it being old I love it so much.

Coronation Street characters Steve McDonald, played by Simon Gregson and Karen Phillips, played by Suranne Jones (PA Archive)PETER BLAKE PICTUREHe’s the artist who’s famous for things like the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper album cover. My friend had one of his works in his house and I went to the gallery where he got it.

I got One Hundred Women, which is a collage of faces from all over the world of different eras and societies. It just really spoke to me and it’s one of those pictures that you can sit and look at for hours and hours.

It’s just really lovely.GRUMPY MUGThis is the thing I DON’T have for my house any longer and I miss it so much.

It’s a really big double mug of the Grumpy character from Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. It was my husband’s but you could get the perfect amount of tea in it so I nicked it off him.

I was washing the pots and to my horror it smashed on the floor. I spent ages on the internet trying to track down a replacement.

But my husband got it in the 1990s when he worked for Warner Brothers and you can’t get one anywhere.

So my house really needs another big mug.MY CHRISTMAS DECORATIONSYou amass a lot of Christmas rubbish and I was rooting around the loft sorting stuff out before we moved.

I actually collect decorations and have picked up ones from all over the world.

I have some from the Congo, Sierra Leone, Mexico, New York and Italy.

They go on my tree and it’s nice to sit at that time of year and remember the places I’ve been.

Suranne in Doctor Foster (Phil Fisk / PA)DOCTOR WHO DOLLI was in Doctor Who and they made a doll of my character, Idris, and sent me some through the post.

I gave some to fans and relatives but kept one in the box which I found again at the move and now have proudly in my home office.

It’s very strange seeing yourself as a doll. The clothes look like my character but you start to think: “Does that really look like me?”

We went to a toy shop in New York recently and found loads of me which is definitely odd!MY PARENTS’ WEDDING ALBUMI’ve got a small version of my parents’ wedding album and it’s such a nice thing to have.

My dad has big moustache and he’s wearing a brown wool suit. He looks like he’s got his trousers on backwards because of the bell bottoms!

My mum was 23 when she got married. Now I look at those photographs and see how much like her I look.

We’re so similar. I took a photograph of myself in Crimson Field with the First World War nurse’s headdress on. It looks like a veil and when I put it next to my mum’s wedding day picture it really is uncanny.WILLIAM WATERHOUSE PAINTINGIt’s a copy of a work by the English artist and I got it in Ronda, a mountain town in Andalusia in Spain.

It’s a picture of woman smelling a flower and I loved it as soon as I saw it.

When I went on a date with my now-husband and he came to my house for the first time, he saw it and told me how much he loved it too.

In fact, he had a book about Waterhouse’s works and it was just nice that right from the start we had that shared love.