Coronation Street's Tina O'Brien says 'my goodness' as she does double take over soap past
26.02.2024 - 16:43
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Coronation Street star Tina O'Brien was left doing a double take over a picture of herself from her early days in the show due to who it reminded her of. The actress took a trip down memory lane and looked back at all of her character's 'bad romances' from over the years.
Tina, who is famed for playing Sarah Barlow in the ITV soap, was reminded of all of her character's relationships and was able to add her own commentary about what happened and what she thought about them, as well as sharing anecdotes from the time.
Among them was Neil Fearns, played by Paul Holowaty. Sarah was at the young age of 13 when she catapulted into adulthood having found herself pregnant with Bethany. At first, Sarah didn’t tell anyone who the father was but best friend Candice worked out it was Neil, a school friend of Sarah’s. He had no involvement in Bethany’s upbringing as Sarah went it alone as a teen single mum.
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"Nothing for me will probably ever beat that story, just because of the age I was, the opportunity to play out a teenage pregnancy and how much the story blew up," Tina recalled. "Neil Fearns was Sarah’s first sexual relationship, it happened once, she was very young and very naive, Sarah just thought she was putting on weight but her mum took her to the doctors and it turned out she was 5 months pregnant.
"There was a conversation that Sarah might disappear off, have the baby and they’d raise it as Gail’s but it all came out at school thanks to Candice and that went out of the window. They were just so young and with not being in a