Stephanie Davis has shared how she may have unintentionally 'manifested' her role in Coronation Street as she shared the reason for her time away from our TV screens. The actress is best known for playing Sinead O'Connor in Hollyoaks.
She appeared in the Channel 4 soap from 2010 to 2015. She then announced in 2018 that she would be returning to Hollyoaks as Sinead before leaving again in 2019. And while she hasn't appeared on screen since, it was announced back in May that she'd be restarting her acting career in Corrie.
She'll arrive on screens in the ITV soap later this month as Courtney Vance, the glamorous wife of Darren, one of Dev Alahan's new business associates. And while he works with Dev on his business empire, Courtney begins to pursue a steamy fling with Dev's teen son Aadi Alahan.
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Speaking in her first interview since bagging her new role, Stephanie told the Manchester Evening News and other press: "It's amazing. It's a dream come true!" Having already filmed her first scenes, asked how it's gone so far, she added: "I'm loving it. Everyone's been so welcoming and I've settled in straight away. Amazing place, amazing people."
And it appears Stephanie, who hails from Liverpool, may have always known she'd make it onto the cobbles one day as she revealed how it's been a dream of hers since she was a young girl. "I was speaking to my mum and I wrote a poem when I was about 13 or 14 and I said, 'One day I'll be on the cobbles of Coronation Street,'" the mum-of-one revealed.
"She put it in her bedside drawer and she got it out and she was like, how amazing is that? You wrote that as a child. It was one of your dreams and now you're doing so yeah, it's a dream come true."
Speaking about her mum, Stephanie added: "I don't know what I'd do without her. She's been a massive part of my life and way you think now I've got Caben [her son] who's six and you're doing all the running around to football and to swimming, you realise how much your parents did for you so I'm like, 'Thank you so much mum for everything you've done for me'. She's amazing."
And speaking about her first day on set, Stephanie ticked off any Corrie fan or wannabe Corrie star's biggest goal straight away. "On my first day on set, my first scene we filmed was in the Rovers which was amazing. I always said to my mum and my partner, 'I can't wait to be back ons et and hear 'rolling up and action'," she said.
"I took a little video of myself when I heard it and I could have cried. I was so happy... But because I've been in TV since such a young age, it's all I know so it's just like being back at home where I belong."
Her audition for Corrie marked the first since she decided to return to work since welcoming her son, Caben Albi, in 2017 with her TV personality ex-Jeremy McConnell. "All this was fate, it's crazy really," Stephanie started when talking about how she got the role in Corrie.
"I took time out to be a mum to my little boy Caben and I said to my partner, 'I need to get back to work. I need to hear rolling up and action. I need to do what I love again'. I said I was going to get a new agent and have a fresh start and so I applied for a new agent and on the day I went to meet her, she said, 'What do you want to do?' and I said, 'I want to do Coronation Street. And throw in a Panto as well for Christmas', laughing and joking with her."
She continued: "She was taken aback and [said] people are usually like, 'anything that comes up,' but I was like no, I want to do Coronation Street. So anyway, I went home and it must have been two days afterwards and I was getting my lashes done by my cousin and I had my eyes closed.
"She said, 'What do you want to do?' and I said, 'I don't know. I've just got this gut feeling I want to do Coronation Street'. And as she [her cousin] was speaking my phone started ringing but I obviously couldn't open my eyes so I held the phone up to her and said, 'Who's that?' and she said, 'It says new agent'.
"So I answered it and she was like, 'You're never going to believe this. This is weird. You've come in and said that [and] a part has just come up on Coronation Street and it's been written for you. It's literally fate!' And you know when you have that feeling that everything's too good to be true? This was my first audition back in three years."
Stephanie's agent then sent her over the brief for the part and as soon as she read it, she says she knew it was hers. "I was like, 'this is mine!'" she told us. "So I did the audition and I just went through a wave of emotions... It was everything I wanted but I thought, 'This is too good to be true. It's my first audition back. No one gets their first audition' but then the phone rang and she was like, 'You've got it!'and it didn't sink in. I actually started crying... I just couldn't believe how quickly it had all happened and I was so, so grateful.
"And obviously, as a kid, [I] grew up with Coronation Street on the television in the home and I just felt like everything happened for a reason and I felt so grateful and blessed and couldn't believe how one minute I was telling my new agent I want to do Coronation Street and the next minute I've got the part. It was a whirlwind but amazing."
