ROSIE RETURN Helen Flanagan reveals she’s ‘ready’ for Coronation Street comeback – but bosses haven’t called
HELEN Flanagan has revealed she’s ready for a Coronation Street return seven years after last appearing on the cobbles.
The actress, 35, found fame as Rosie Webster at just 10 years old, playing the role of the tearaway youngster from 2000 until 2012.
She returned to the show in 2017, two years after the birth of her eldest child Matilda, but left again the following year.
Though the exit coincided with her maternity leave, Helen wanted to pursue other projects and had grown tired with the character’s ‘b***y’ nature.
Since then, reality TV and modelling work has filled her schedule but she’s itching for an acting return on TV screens.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, she said: “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.”
Helen is currently busy learning her lines for panto season and her turn as The Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Liverpool‘s M&S Bank Arena.
She’ll be cheered on from the audience by her three kids – Matilda, 10, Delilah, seven, and Charlie, four – and her parents, who are hands on with the trio while single parent Helen is working.
“It should be good fun,” said Helen.
“The kids will love going to watch me so that’ll keep me busy because obviously I’m not with the father of my children.
“He lives in like Somerset and I live in Lancashire. So we live so far away from each other, which is really difficult when you’ve got three young children.”
She continued: “I hate calling it co-parenting because I don’t really feel like a co-parent to be honest with you anyway.”
Helen split from her footballer ex-fiancé Scott Sinclair in 2022 after 13 years together.