Sue Carroll Sue Carroll Susan Elizabeth "Sue" Carroll (6 December 1953 – 25 December 2011) was an English journalist, best known for her time as a columnist at the "Daily Mirror". Carroll was born in 1953 at Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After leaving Gosforth Grammar School she joined D. C. Thomson & Co. in Dundee, Scotland. Working on the weekly teenage girls magazine "Jackie" she assisted on its "Cathy and Claire" problem page and then moved on to write the magazines fashion and beauty features. Aged 20 she moved to London to work as features editor for "Woman". Employed for her ability to extract
Cathy Alessi she could not turn it down. Ballantyne told David Nicholls of "Inside Soap" "I had a wry smile on my face when I read about the character of Cathy Alessi. She has two teenage sons, one just out of school and one still in school, and that's a very similar situation to my own." Ballantyne's character became popular with viewers in Australia and the actress said Cathy had some good storylines coming up, so she hoped she would become as popular as Meg. Within a year, the entire Alessi family had left, leaving only Rick (Dan Falzon) behind. When Cathy