Corrie's Michelle: 'Stella gets a toyboy: Jason!'

Corrie's Michelle: 'Stella gets a toyboy: Jason!'
Corrie's Michelle: 'Stella gets a toyboy: Jason!'

Coronation Street's Michelle Collins reveals to Soaplife how Stella gets more than tea and sympathy from Jason when she moans about Karl. The builder gives her confidence a complete makeover! So, Stella and Jason become lovers! Did you see that coming? "Stella made some comments when Jason went out with Eva. She said she thought he was really nice. But she has never thought of him in that way at all. She's a bit shocked when he comes on to her." And how does she feel after their night together? "In the beginning she thinks of it as a one-off and is a bit embarrassed, until Jason says he wants to see her again. Then she finds it all quite liberating and she even goes public with about it!" Does she care what Karl will think? "Not at all! She likes the idea of Karl knowing she has got herself a younger model!" Are you enjoying the saucy scenes? "I'm really enjoying it. But the romantic scenes are not very romantic. One day we clashed heads and Ryan [Thomas, who plays Jason] ended up with a nose bleed and I ended up with a swollen cheek! But I don't generally mind kissing scenes, you just have to get on with them."

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.