Stephanie Davis shares reason for acting break and how she actually 'manifested' Coronation Street role
09.07.2023 - 07:33
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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