Stephanie Davis didn't expect to land a part in 'Coronation Street' after three years away from acting.
Stephanie Davis wrote a poem about joining Corrie in the years before being cast in the ITV1 soap
The 30-year-old star played the role of Sinead O'Connor on Channel 4's 'Hollyoaks' on and off from 2010 until 2019 but has now returned to acting in the part of seductress Courtney Vance on ITV1's long-running soap opera even though she didn't expect to land the job in what was her first attempt at a comeback.
Stephanie - who was initially sacked from the Channel 4 soap in 2015 after being deemed "unfit for work" but returned for a short stint from 2018 until 2019 - said: "You know when you have that feeling, ‘This is too good to be true, everything is happening too quick’? This was my first audition back after three years.“
"As soon as I read the brief for the character I was like, ‘This is mine. This is mine’. I did the audition then went through this wave of emotions. I do believe everything happens for a reason, but my first audition back? No one gets that."
The former 'Celebrity Big Brother' star was discovered as an actress in 2010 when Andrew Lloyd Webber was searching for a girl to play Dorothy in his London production of 'The Wizard of Oz' through the BBC talent show 'Over the Rainbow' - which was eventually won by Danielle Hope - and went on to explain that in the years before she found fame, she had even written a poem about joining the famous cobbles of 'Coronation Street' so the career move is a "dream come true" for her.
She added: "I wrote a poem when I was about 13 or 14, which read, ‘One day I will be on the cobbles of 'Coronation Street'', My mum had put it in her bedside drawer and got it out the other day. She said, ‘How amazing is that? You wrote that as a child as one of your dreams and now you’re doing it’. It really is a dream come true.”
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