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Coronation Street star Brooke Vincent has confirmed that she is dating footballer Josh McEachran.
The actress, who plays Sophie Webster in the ITV1 show, was introduced to the Chelsea star at a Manchester City game six weeks ago - but Vincent has insisted that she isn't a WAG.
"Yes, he's my boyfriend but it's early days and I want to keep it quiet so he can get to know me for me and not for my job," she told The People. "We get on really well and have a laugh and I enjoy being with him, so we'll see how it goes.
"I've been called worse things than a WAG but it's not right people label me just because my boyfriend happens to be a footballer. I have been in Coronation Street for eight years and I have worked for everything I've got *without Josh."
The soap star also brushed off claims that she was dating footballer Jack Wilshere, saying that she has lots of male friends.
"Jack is just a friend," she said. "There really wasn't anything going on. I have loads of friends who are boys because I'm a lads' kind of girl - I play FIFA football video games and I'm quite a tomboy."
Vincent has signed a new 12-month contract to stay at Coronation Street.
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Kerry Katona has revealed that she would like to land a role in Coronation Street.
The 30-year-old TV personality, who has recently spoken about her desire to move into acting, left her management company last month, prompting tabloid speculation as to the reasons behind her exit.
"I'm really good," Katona told Star magazine of her current situation. "Even though I keep seeing stories saying, 'Kerry's gone off the rails again!'"
On leaving Can Associates, she admitted to feeling "freer", commenting: "It was a big decision to take, but it was for the best. I think the reason I cried was more due to whoever spread the 'Kerry is back on drugs and she's been dropped because she went on a six-hour drinking binge' story.
"That's a load of b*llocks. I left because it's just time to move on. I wanted to do more acting and Claire's not an acting agent. For goodness' sake, if that was really the case, I've been on longer drinking sessions with Claire herself!
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"The only thing that has got me down is people thinking that I'm back on drugs. I feel that stigma is always going to stick with me and that's something I have to live with."
Katona added: "Claire's a manager, she's not a celebrity, and it should not be this big a deal about changing your management team. It's like getting a new boss at work."
Discussing her acting ambitions, Katona explained that she would love a "comical" role: "For me, acting is just dead easy. You're somebody else and you leave your world behind. I'd love to be in Waterloo Road or a psycho in Coronation Street!"
Hitting back at claims that drug use had prompted her exit from Claire Powell's company, Katona told the magazine: "I've not touched drugs in 18 months and I never will again. God, I'm 30. I'm not a p*sshead - I wish I was but I can't afford it! I don't even have alcohol in my house.
"As for my drinking, I'm not going to apologise for going to Marbella and having a drink on a girlie holiday. I work my **** off. I play mum and dad to four little babies. I go out and earn a living, I get no maintenance - I'm entitled to go on holiday and let my hair down. I got pissed and enjoyed every minute of it! I woke up with some stonking hangovers, but I loved it. Next year I'm going to Ibiza!"
THere were some photos of this sla**er but I didnt want to make you throw up your Brekkie
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Coronation Street bosses have warned Brooke Vincent to stop plugging products on Twitter, according to a report.
The actress, who plays Sophie Webster in the ITV1 serial, has over 76,000 followers on the micro-blogging website. According to The Mirror, a show producer reminded Vincent of the strict guidelines cast must adhere too when using the social-networking forums.
Vincent had allegedly named a number of products while also posting photographs plugging brands including McDonalds, Domino's Pizza and Nando's. However, the paper adds that it is unclear if the 19-year-old received free items in return.
"Brooke is keen on Twitter but there are strict *guidelines about what actors and actresses can post online," a source said. "Brooke's recent tweets have crossed the line by endorsing so many products. A producer gave her a serious ticking-off. Other cast members may be dragged in for a few stern words too."
An ITV spokesperson commented: "Cast are advised to consider tweets carefully."
Responding to the tabloid report this morning, Vincent tweeted: "There Has GOT2Be A Point That A Journalist Comes To Wen They Realise That There's A lot More IMPORTANT Things Going On In The World Than ME (sic).
"Write About Things That Matter!!! No Ones Arsed Wow!!!!"
The BBC yesterday denied that it was banning staff, talent and writers from using social-networking websites, insisting that it had "clear guidelines in place for both the personal and professional use" of such facilities.
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"As for my drinking, I'm not going to apologise for going to Marbella and having a drink on a girlie holiday. I work my **** off. I play mum and dad to four little babies. I go out and earn a living, I get no maintenance - I'm entitled to go on holiday and let my hair down. I got pissed and enjoyed every minute of it! I woke up with some stonking hangovers, but I loved it. Next year I'm going to Ibiza!"
Poor Kerry she's the only single parent who's had a hard life. yeah right. She will never get a role on Corrie or any other drama, She can beg as many times as she wants. Until she sorts herself out no-one will enterain her.
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CORONATION Street has been blasted for being too gay.
Telly critics say the show *has abandoned “homely, *traditional values” to cash in on controversial storylines.
The ITV1 soap currently has a raft of gay characters including lesbians Sophie *Webster and Sian Powers (Brooke *Vincent and Sacha Parkinson, both 19) and homosexual barman Sean Tully (Antony Cotton, 35) who is set to marry his boyfriend Marcus Dent (Charlie *Condou, 38).
And factory worker Hayley Cropper (Julie Hesmondhalgh, 41) was the first transsexual in a British soap when she *appeared on the Street in 1998.
But bisexual media commentator Brian Sewell said: “There’s too much. Not only of gay men – who are estimated to make up just 6% of the population but who dominate storylines – but also of lesbians, *bisexuals, the trans-gender community, cross-dressers and everyone else with some sexual quirk or fetish.
“TV is far too politically correct. It fosters all minorities and gives them a disproportionate amount of air time.”
Recently Corrie fans have been introduced to cross-dresser Marc Selby (Andrew Hall, 57), who has been leading a double life as Marcia.
There have also been a number of *minor gay characters, including Gail Platt’s dad Ted, Ken Barlow’s long-lost grandson James (James Roache, 25) and clean-cut Todd Grimshaw (Bruno Langley, 28).
Sewell, 70, claims the PC show bosses have ruined the working-class image the soap has always portrayed. But last night Antony Cotton hit back on Twitter: “Who gives a flying ******* what he thinks?
“Some people are gay, get over it. Young people couldn’t care less.”
And pointing to Sewell’s own attraction to men as well as women, he added: “The irony of him talking about LGBT people in Coronation Street. This coming from the biggest, spineless Mary Ellen in town.
“Enough with the naff, ridiculous, archaic, bigoted anger toward a community that forms such an important and essential part of society.”
Daily Star
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Coronation Street actor Andrew Lancel has reportedly agreed that there are too many gay characters in the soap.
Daily Mail critic Brian Sewell slammed the ITV serial for having too many male cast members earlier this week, saying that they are "showered, prinked and perfumed".
Charlie Condou, who plays Marcus Dent, later hit back at the "barely-veiled homophobia".
"I wouldn't have thought four characters out of a cast of about 65 regulars was excessive," the actor said. "Sewell seems to suggest there's something morally reprehensible in being gay, and that there's some kind of promotion of a gay agenda at work (led by a sinister-sounding 'mafia')."
However, Condou's co-star Lancel - who portrays Underworld boss Frank Foster - is said to have branded the number of gay characters in the show "disproportional", during a speech at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire.
"I believe there are too many gay people on Coronation Street," the 40-year-old actor is quoted as saying by the Daily Star. "If you walked down any street in Manchester you wouldn't see so many. It is disproportional."
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Coronation Street boss Phil Collinson reportedly called an emergency meeting with scriptwriters last month to demand new storylines for 15 characters.
The producer is said to have made a list of characters he thinks are "urgently in need of attention" to avoid viewers forgetting about them.
Newcomer Stella Price (Michelle Collins), husband Karl (John Michie) and their *daughter Eva (Catherine Tyldesley) are top of the list. They need a big storyline so that they're "*accepted" by the audience, The People reports.
Chesney Battersby-Brown (Sam Aston) and his *pregnant girlfriend Katy Armstrong (Georgia May Foote) were also *highlighted as being in need of attention. Collinson apparently insisted that the pair can't simply disappear until Katy's baby is due around Christmas time.
Gail McIntyre (Helen Worth) and son Nick Tilsley (Ben Price) - who beds Becky McDonald (Katherine Kelly) later this year - will get new storylines. "Nick is a character that definitely needs work. We need a big story for him that will take him in a different direction," Collinson told scriptwriters.
"Previous ideas put forward for the character are not really appropriate. And where are we going with Gail? Does anyone have a story idea that will see her take centre stage?"
Meanwhile, Sean Tully (Antony Cotton) and Marcus Dent (Charlie Condou) will see their relationship under threat in the coming months when Dylan returns home to mum Violet Wilson.
Collinson also requested "fresh" plots for Norris Cole (Malcolm Hebden), Mary Taylor (Patti Clare), and Roy (David Neilson) and Hayley Cropper (Julie Hesmondhalgh).
The producer also suggested a change in direction for Gary Windass (Mikey North) and girlfriend Izzy Armstrong (Cherylee Houston), who is mugged in the coming weeks.
"Collinson really didn't pull any punches," a source said. "The team of scriptwriters was told in no uncertain terms that they *needed to do much more."
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Beyoncé has reportedly become a fan of EastEnders and Coronation Street following her recent visits to the UK.
The singer shunned a night out in London this week in favour of catching up with the soaps, The Sun reports.
The 'Best Thing I Never Had' star wanted to thank her crew for their recent hard work on her upcoming ITV music special.
However, instead of taking them out to dinner, she hosted a party in Simon Cowell's luxury X Factor dressing room, where she has apparently been watching the British shows between takes. Her personal chef cooked food for the group.
A source said: "Beyonce finds the accents on EastEnders really funny. She spends half the time mimicking what they're saying in her fake British accent."
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CORONATION Street star Charlie Condou is to be a dad again.
It will be a second child for the 38-year-old gay actor, who plays male nurse Marcus Dent, and his best friend, actress Catherine Kanter.
Corrie castmate Kym Marsh said in her New! column: "I'm delighted for him!"
Condou brings up two-year-old Georgia Mae with Catherine and his partner Cameron Laux. In Corrie, Marcus is set for his own same-sex parenting plotline.
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Coronation Street manager Phil Collinson has admitted that there have been too many criminals on the soap.
The producer of the ITV1 programme, which has recently been criticised over some of its storylines, said that they are going to cut down on crime in the future.
In an interview with OK magazine, he defended actress Michelle Collins who, as Rovers Return landlady Stella Price, has been attacked over her northern accent.
He also responded to criticism over a supposed influx of gay storylines, saying: "I haven't introduced any gay characters."
However, Collinson admitted that there is some room for improvement on the long-running show.
Asked whether there were too many criminals in Coronation Street, Collinson replied: "Maybe I can take that one on the chin. I agree… we have been at the police station and the court room a little bit too much.
"As we move ahead, we will shift away from serial killers and crime storylines."
Recent killers have included psychopath John Stape and murderer Tony Gordon.
Former castmember Johnny Briggs recently said that the soap has become "boring and humourless".
Coronation Street actress Kym Marsh has dismissed rumours of a ratings crisis at the soap, describing recent press reports as "incorrect".
