Helen Flanagan 'would love to' return to Coronation Street
Helen Flanagan has confessed she "would love to" return to Coronation Street as Rosie Webster but she hasn't been asked even though she lives "around the corner".
Helen Flanagan "would love to" return to Coronation Street.
The 35-year-old actress shot to fame playing Rosie Webster in the ITV soap after landing the role at the age of 10. She stayed with the show from 2000 until 2012 and later returned for another stint in 2017 but exited the Cobbles again the following year. Helen has now explained she's keen to return again but she hasn't been asked even though she lives "around the corner".
She told The Sun newspaper: "I’d love to go back to Coronation Street, but they just haven’t asked me and I live around the corner, but they just haven’t asked me.
"I’d love to, if they asked me. I’d come back, but they obviously haven’t."
As well as her stint on Corrie, Helen has also appeared on I’m A Celebrity… South Africa, Celebs Go Dating and Celebrity Ex on the Beach - and she insisted she enjoys taking part in reality TV shows because it's very different to acting work.
She explained: "I’m kind of like open-minded really. I’ve always enjoyed doing reality TV as well. The last reality show I did was Celebs Go Dating. I loved that. I had literally the best summer. Like I really, really enjoyed it.
"I think there’s this thing as well. I feel like if you can do reality TV or modelling, it doesn’t make you any less of an actress.
"It doesn’t affect your acting talent. I think sometimes it’s silly when there’s that thing that you think: 'Oh, well, if you’re an actress, you don’t do this’. That’s ridiculous."
It comes after Helen previously admitted she was bullied as a child over her Coronation Street fame.
The actress replaced Emma Collinge as Rosie Webster in 2000, but her TV career led her to be tormented by her jealous peers.
She only escaped the torment when her parents, Julia Flanagan and Paul Flanagan, moved her to a private girls' school.
Helen was quoted by the Daily Star newspaper's Hot TV column as saying: "I did struggle with a lot of bullying in my first school because I was on Coronation Street.
"I did really get picked on. My parents then moved me to a private girls' school."
The TV star - who has daughters Matilda, and Delilah, as well as a son Charlie with her ex-partner Scott Sinclair - admitted the bullying she endured makes her worry as a mum.
She said: "Because I got picked on an awful lot, as a mum, I worry. My little girl, she is a sweetie and soft like me."
