Coronation St's Rosie to model on ITV's Lorraine

Coronation St's Rosie to model on ITV's Lorraine
Coronation St's Rosie to model on ITV's Lorraine

Coronation Street's Rosie Webster is to appear on Lorraine and Loose Women as part of her attempts to become a top model. The soap diva - played by Helen Flanagan - is to star in her own internet spin-off show on www.itv.com/corrie, which sees her head to London to pursue a modelling career and get into a catfight with a rival model live on Lorraine Kelly's chat show. Helen, 20, returned to Corrie after a three-month break with her new peroxide pixie crop died brown, ready to get back into character as wannabe model Rosie. ITV1 viewers will see Rosie talk about her plans in episodes of Coronation Street and head to London with builder boyfriend Jason Grimshaw (Ryan Thomas) to appear as a model on Lorraine. The internet spin-off then picks up the story and after her TV scrap helps gobby Rosie become an internet sensation she is invited to be a guest on Loose Women, gets interviewed by Johnny Vaughan and Lisa Snowdon on Capital Radio and even launches her own website. Corrie fans will soon be able to follow Rosie on Twitter as she tweets all about her adventures in the big city. The Rosie Webster internet exclusive follows the success of other Corrie internet spin-offs. Gary's Army Diaries revealed what happened to post-traumatic stress disorder sufferer Gary Windass in Afghanistan, while Ken and Deirdre's Bedtime Stories allowed viewers a peep into what Ken and Deirdre Barlow chat about in bed.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.