Sophie Webster (Brooke Vincent)

[Dazzle]

Looks like a good storyline.

[Perdita]

HERE'S Coronation Street's Sophie Webster sharing a lingering look with best pal Sian Powers - but fans will soon see them sharing a lot more.
The school pals, played by 17-year-olds Brooke Vincent and Sacha Parkinson, are to be Weatherfield's first lesbians.

They get close after Sian splits with her boyfriend Ryan.

And here they are filming the scenes leading up to their first snog - which will air on Friday, April 9.



The Sun

[Perdita]

CORRIE fans are in for a shock when Sophie Webster gets support for her lesbian affair from an unlikely source - her sister Rosie.
The soap's first lesbian storyline will bring the warring sisters together, and Brooke Vincent said she can't wait to start filming.

Brooke, 17, who plays Sophie, and on-screen sis Helen Flanagan also told of their close friendship and how they wept real tears over screen mum Sally Webster's breast cancer plot.

Sophie is to fall in love with best pal Sian Powers, played by Sacha Parkinson, 17. And while Brooke admits it will be weird kissing Sacha, she is relieved her co-star is a real-life pal.

Brooke said: "Sacha and I were friends long before Corrie and I'm so glad it's her. We've been to drama school together and known each other since we were six or seven.

"She is one of my best friends, which means we've got each other and we're not doing it alone.

"The story's quite cleverly done. It's going to be implicit, not explicit, and we want that to come across. It's emotional and more about the feelings."

Rosie and Sophie constantly bicker in the soap, and Helen, 20, reckons her character's reaction to her sister's sexuality will shock viewers.

She said: "You'll be surprised at how she reacts. She will stand by Sophie. When you love your sister, you support her.

And Brooke said she was thrilled to be involved in the ground-breaking lesbian plot. She said: "It's such an honour to get a story like this at my young age."

Helen added: "They've given it to her because she's amazing. She's a scene stealer." The girls said the Christmas scenes where their mum - played by Sally Whittaker, 46 - tells her family she has breast cancer were among the most difficult they have shot.

Helen, who is far more sensitive than her WAG-wannabe character, said: "It was really emotional to film."


To make sure the Websters - completed by Michael Le Vell as Kevin - weren't in tears for weeks, bosses scheduled the scenes in an intensive block.

Brooke said: "We got into the role that much, we filmed it all together so we didn't have to come back and re-cry.

"Sally's like our mum. We're like a little family and if one of us starts crying, the others start crying too."


And she said of the difficult cancer storyline: "It's just one of those things that you've got to take so seriously. We wanted to get it right because it affects a lot of people."

The girls - who have played Rosie and Sophie for ten and six years respectively - praised the emotional script and Sally's tear-jerking performance.

Brooke said: "The writing really made us cry. Sal was amazing in it and her performance led us so much."

Meanwhile, in real life the screen sisters are helping firefighters save lives by publicising a vital safety message. Brooke said: "It doesn't even take a minute to test your smoke alarm and it could save your loved ones."



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[alan45]

CORRIE lesbians Brooke Vincent and Sacha Parkinson finally have their much-anticipated snog next week.
The pair, who play sexually confused Sophie Webster and Sian Powers, lock lips in a surprise kiss.

It happens in next Sunday's episode - after the pals have been rowing all week about Sian's boyfriend Ryan Connor (Ben Thompson).

When they finally sort out their differences, the teens are overcome by emotion - and end up sharing a smooch.

A source from the soap said: "The snog is out of the blue for both of them. The relief of making friends comes out in a kiss.

"They then have to work out their real feelings for each other."

See the steamy scene in Coronation Street on Sunday, April 11 at 7.30pm on ITV1.

[lizann]

could they think of anything else

[Perdita]

Communications regulator Ofcom has cleared one of Coronation Street's recent lesbian screen kisses.

During the Weatherfield soap's 8.30pm instalment on April 23, viewers saw best friends Sophie Webster (Brooke Vincent) and Sian Powers (Sacha Parkinson) finally confess their true feelings for each other, before cementing their relationship with a lingering kiss.

Following the broadcast, ten viewers logged complaints with Ofcom under Section 1 of the broadcasting code, which covers 'sexual material'.

However, after reviewing the material and consulting with programme makers Granada, Ofcom cleared the scenes and took no further action.

The soap's first lesbian kiss between the same characters was watched by 7m two weeks earlier on April 11.

Some people need to get a life !!!

[Dazzle]

I can't believe even 10 people complained about this.

[Katy]

oh for goodness sake! people need to get out more, Ofcom have got better things to do surely.

[LostVoodoo]

i'm surprised it was only 10...people are usually quite hysterical about stuff like this.

[Perdita]

GREASE-monkey Kevin Webster and wife Sally will go frantic with worry when daughter Sophie goes missing.

The couple, played by Michael Le Vell, 45 and Sally Whittaker, 47, are distraught when Sophie skips out on college.

Fans will watch them take to the streets with flyers and posters in a desperate bid to find her.

Kevin breaks down, sobbing: “She’s a child. Anything could happen. I just want her home.”

Sophie (Brooke Vincent, 18) and pal Sian Powers do a runner after their families ban them from seeing one another after their lesbian fling.

Sophie calls sister Rosie (Helen Flanagan, 19) from a phone box to say she is OK but hangs up leaving no clues as to her whereabouts.