Corrie actress has Saturday salon job

[Perdita]

Coronation Street star Brooke Vincent has revealed that she works as a Saturday girl at a Manchester salon.

The actress, who plays Sophie Webster, insisted that she enjoys the opportunity to be an ordinary teenager when she is away from the set of the ITV1 soap.

"It's good to have something different to do where I can just be normal," she admitted.

Brooke has just turned 16, which means she will no longer need a chaperone at the Corrie studios. The teen said she is looking forward to shopping alone in Manchester during filming breaks.

Sally Whittaker, who plays Brooke's on-screen mum Sally Webster, explained that the soap star may also now appear in more serious storylines.

Whittaker said: "She's a very mature girl and quite sensible, which is a great quality with stories she can do in future."


Good news, she seems a very sensible girl. I would love to see more of her, she is a little cracker when she gets the right storyline!
If any of you in Manchester get your hair done by her, let us know :lol:

[Chloe O'brien]

Good on her for getting a Saturday job out with acting.

[Perdita]

In her first-ever interview, 16-year-old actress Brooke talks about life as Corrie’s Sophie Webster, coping with spots and how the Government should be helping teenagers

At a beauty salon in central Manchester, shoppers pause when they see the petite teenager in her pink tabard who is busy brushing the floor.

“Doesn’t she look like that girl from Corrie!” remark the passers-by.

What they don’t know is that Brooke Vincent – the assistant who sweeps up stray strands, washes hair and paints toe nails – isn’t just a lookalike.

She really is “that girl from Corrie”, better known as Sophie Webster, daughter of Sally and Kevin and younger sister to teenage temptress Rosie.

AdvertisementRemarkably, for the past two years, Brooke has divided her time between school, holding down a Saturday job and playing Sophie.

“I have a normal life and the Corrie stuff is my bonus life,” smiles Brooke, 16.

“Playing Sophie isn’t like a job. I come here for fun.

“I love working in the salon, too. I’ve just started doing nail art on people’s toes, which is a step up. I hear all the gossip there, like whose boyfriend has cheated on who. It’s great!”

Brooke was 11 when she joined the soap in 2003. She can even recall her first line: “‘Daaad! Rosie called me helmet head!’”

But there are some other things about those early scenes she’d rather forget.

“Oh my God, when I look back it’s awful,” she frowns.

“I had a pink bubble coat that didn’t even fit and I was such an ugly kid. My teeth didn’t fit my mouth and I had big ears. Horrific!

“It’s hard playing someone two years younger. I keep thinking, ‘When’s Sophie going to get big?’”

Brooke shouldn’t have to wait much longer. A Corrie insider reveals: “Sophie is sick of living in Rosie’s shadow and has had enough.

"She’s not going to just let life revolve around her sister. Sophie has always been in everyone else’s storylines – now she’ll be at the centre of her own.”

Brooke can’t wait: “I think Sophie should be dead evil. And she should get a hunk – a younger version of Liam.”

Talking of hunks, does Brooke have a boyfriend? “I did, he was a lad I grew up with. But he told me he never sees me as I’m always busy,” she says.

“I’m not in a hurry with all that. I like lads’ company as friends. In some ways I like speaking to lads more as they never go on about their weight or a spot.

"Although they’re always asking me if I can get them a girl out of Hollyoaks.”

It can’t have been easy going through her early teens on TV. “It is weird,” admits Brooke.

“I’ve always been small but suddenly my thighs got bigger. I call them my thunder thighs.

"And like all girls, I have days when I’m paranoid about my weight... but not so bad that I don’t pig out on McDonald’s.”

But her main concern right now is problem skin.

“I get spots and the make-up we wear makes it worse,” she says. “I don’t like having spots but there are people who have it a lot worse than me so I try not to care.

“I’ll never be perfect. There’s always something to find that’s wrong so I try not to worry about it.”

[sarah15]

That's good of her to be able to lead an ordinary life, and also good of her to talk about self-image issues she has with herself so that other girls can see that even someone their age who is a little famous has them, but does not worry about them that much and develop anorexia nervosa or anything like that.

[Katy]

i think shes a cracking little actress, although went of her a bit when my birmingham relatives say they remind her of me, Sophie that ios, not Brooke Vincent!

[HoneyBee]

Coronation Street star Brooke Vincent has revealed that she works as a Saturday girl at a Manchester salon.

The actress, who plays Sophie Webster, insisted that she enjoys the opportunity to be an ordinary teenager when she is away from the set of the ITV1 soap.

"It's good to have something different to do where I can just be normal," she admitted.

Brooke has just turned 16, which means she will no longer need a chaperone at the Corrie studios. The teen said she is looking forward to shopping alone in Manchester during filming breaks.

Sally Whittaker, who plays Brooke's on-screen mum Sally Webster, explained that the soap star may also now appear in more serious storylines.

Whittaker said: "She's a very mature girl and quite sensible, which is a great quality with stories she can do in future."


Good news, she seems a very sensible girl. I would love to see more of her, she is a little cracker when she gets the right storyline!
If any of you in Manchester get your hair done by her, let us know :lol:


Well I could congratulate her, but why congratulate somebody for doing what any other 'normal' teenager will be doing at that age.