Shaw's character met a tragic end in the episode screened on 13 January 2003, when she was murdered by Richard Hillman (played by Brian Capron).
In 2003, Shaw appeared as Sally in the stage play The Blue Room, starring alongside Jason Connery.
Since the birth of her children Shaw has made the occasional return to acting and has performed in several national tours including Mum's the Word (2010), Busy Body (2011) and The Cat and the Canary (2021), as well as lead roles in pantomimes in Worthing and Southsea.
She married Robert Ashworth in June 2001, but a series of early problems occurred including a row on a return flight from the Caribbean after she had been filming ITV's Wish You Were Here...?.
He had written a number of letters to her, as well as Coronation Street co-stars Jacqueline Pirie and Jennifer James, and hung around the grounds of Granada Studios in Manchester, put his arms around Shaw, and asked for a kiss.