Inside Coronation Street's Shelley King's love life with actor partner
07.01.2024 - 09:09
/ ok.co.uk
Coronation Street's Yasmeen Nazir, played by Shelley King, has had a rollercoaster of a love life on the show. However, away from our screens, Shelley is quite private and doesn't often appear at soap awards or in the public eye. She's had her own struggles with her sexuality before coming out as gay.
In 2021, she opened up about her journey in an essay for the Metro, talking about her unsuccessful relationships with men. She also spoke about how growing up without seeing lesbian representation in the media affected her.
This led her to "try to have relationships" with men. As a teenager, she was drawn to books, films, and plays about "women who were attracted to other women." However, her journey wasn't as smooth as it seemed.
She reflected: "This was the early 70s and nothing I stumbled across seemed to have a happy ending." She confessed: "I tried to have relationships with straight men, but I lacked an emotional connection and ended up causing them pain." Her life changed when she entered the world of professional acting, where Shelley found herself regularly interacting with women in the industry. Shelley openly shared her struggles when she first portrayed a gay woman in her early 20s. Reflecting on her role, she reminisced: "I'm an out gay woman but at the age of 24, 25, I was in a programme called Angels.
What the then producers suggested was that they would make my character gay and I just wasn't ready.
The world was a different world. I didn't know how to deal with my own sexuality then." Despite being open about her sexuality to family and friends, the TV star found herself spiralling downwards as she nurtured "self-destructive crushes on women who would never return the feelings". After two failed relationships
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