Michelle Keegan felt ’embarrassed’ to be voted Sexiest Female 12 times during her soap days.
The actress, shot to fame playing Rovers Return barmaid Tina McIntyre in Coronation Street – making her debut in 2008. For six years, she was a firm favourite with viewers before quitting in 2014.
Michelle went down so well with viewers, that she bagged a ton of awards during her soap stint including “sexiest female.” She won the accolade a dozen of times between 2008 and 2014.
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Michelle was also involved in a slew of dramatic storylines on the soap, including abortion, murder and surrogacy. However, she has now revealed that she felt “frustrated” how her acting would get overlooked for her appearance.
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She told The Observer: “It was embarrassing. Because I was in a lot of heavy storylines. There was one where I felt like I was crying every day for months and months. And then at the end of it, when the accolade was sexiest female, it was so frustrating.”
The Brassic actress added: “And the funny thing is, I’m not sexy! I’ve never been sexy! My friends have always laughed about it. Even when I say the word it makes me cringe.”
It comes as Michelle’s new thriller Fool Me Once has dropped on Netflix. She stars alongside actress Joanna Lumley in the show which is based on author Harlan Coben’s novel of the same name.
Michelle, who portrays distressed widow Maya Stern, revealed that Joanna, who plays Maya’s murdered husband’s mother Judith Burkett, pushed her to be “more feisty” in scenes. She said: “They were so much fun. I mean it’s not every day that you tell Joanna Lumley to F-off! That was quite nerve racking.
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“She made me feel very comfortable from the off. She’s such a legend. She is so good at playing that feisty role and it made me go a bit feistier. But in the rehearsals, I wouldn’t swear. I would just say, ‘The F word’. On a take I’d swear but in rehearsals I wouldn’t swear in her face. I couldn’t do.”
In the TV adaptation of Harlan Coben’s Fool Me Once Michelle plays former ops pilot, Maya Stern, who gets a shock after returning from the war to find out that her beloved husband has been savagely murdered. However, there’s an interesting twist.
While Maya struggles with grief, she catches her previously-thought-deceased husband playing with her daughter on the baby monitor. Thus setting off an exciting chain of events in which the female protagonist will have to solve the mystery.
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