Fair City’s Sorcha Furlong revealed her daughter was shocked when kids at school broke the news to her that her mother was famous.
The Dubliner is a well-known face in Irish households, having played Carrigstown’s Orla Molloy for over two decades.
But the actress revealed one house that doesn’t recognise her “celebrity status” is her own, and that her daughter, Stella, 11, didn’t even know what she did for a living until she found out at school.
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Sorcha laughed: “You know the way they go, I’m embarrassing just because I breathe… and then I am obviously more embarrassing because I am on the telly.
“God bless her, people say to her, ‘Is your mam on Fair City?’ but I am just mammy, that’s it. We don’t do airs and graces. I never have.
“She didn’t even know what I did for a living until she started school and people were asking her.
“And she was like, ‘Mam, are you famous?’ And I was like, ‘No, why?’ And she says, ‘Because you are on the telly mam, they told me’.”
Sorcha told how she had brought her daughter to visit the RTE set over the years, but Stella didn’t realise what it was because she was so young.
She explained: “I remember one day, I’d say she was four or five, and I had to go up to the office to get something in Fair City, and she was like, ‘OK is this where you work then?’ and I had shown her the set and McCoys, but she couldn’t piece it together.”
And now that she is aware, Sorcha joked that her daughter still has no interest in her high-profile gig.
She laughed: “She’s at that age now, she’ll be 12 on Paddy’s Day, and I’m just embarrassing, anyway. And it’s so funny, I’ve talked to all of my friends who have daughters the same age, and they think we just came out of the womb at 44 years of age and never had a life.”
The soap star was speaking as she wrapped up some intense scenes for Fair City which left her feeling exhausted. She said: “It is like anything, even
when you are doing theatre, it is the adrenaline.
“Your body reacts, like if you are doing loads of crying scenes, your body is exhausted because your body doesn’t know that you are only pretending.
“It is the same with theatre, your body doesn’t know what is going on.”
Meanwhile, last time out on Fair City Sorcha’s character Orla got caught up in her emotions and made the mistake of slapping her boyfriend Paul’s daughter Ruth and then trying to hide her
misdemeanour.
Sorcha is keeping mum on what happens next, but she did reveal that it’s only the beginning of a much more complicated family drama.
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