Helen Flanagan: 'People are really nasty to me'

Helen Flanagan: 'People are really nasty to me'
Helen Flanagan: 'People are really nasty to me' (Image credit: Doug Peters/PA Photos)

Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan gets hurt by the "really nasty" comments she gets from viewers. The actress said that fans of the ITV1 soap often confuse her with her bratty, spoilt alter-ego Rosie Webster. She told the Daily Mirror: "People can say really nasty things to me when I'm out and call me really nasty names - if somebody said something mean to Rosie, she would snap back with a really good answer, but I'm not like that. "I just think, 'why are they being mean to me'?" The 20-year-old added that she is 'much more vulnerable and sensitive' than her minx-like character. But she has no qualms about donning skimpy and outrageous costumes when playing Rosie. "Even though Rosie has to take her clothes off in the Street, I don't get self-conscious because I have been doing it since I was 16," she said. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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.