Michelle Keegan is Corrie's 'messiest star'

Michelle Keegan is Corrie's 'messiest star'
Michelle Keegan is Corrie's 'messiest star' (Image credit: PA Archive/PA Photos)

Coronation Street's Michelle Keegan is the most untidy cast member on the soap, according to her co-star Sacha Parkinson. Sacha, who plays Sian Powers, joked that Michelle - aka barmaid Tina McIntyre - would not win so many sexiest female awards if people knew how messy she really was. "Me and Brooke weren't allowed to share a dressing room any more, because we got told it was dead messy," the 19-year-old said on the show's official website. "Now she's moved into Michelle Keegan's dressing room and Michelle is the messiest person I've ever met. "When you walk into her room, you've got to fight your way through clothes, plants, bedding and everything. She's terrible! I don't know how she got that sexiest female award," she added. Sacha also shared gossip about co-star Ryan Thomas, who plays Jason Grimshaw - revealing that he was grumpy in the mornings, and has a habit of bursting into song. Ryan wants to know the latest songs but he just doesn't know the words. So he'll put on this song in his car and sing all the wrong words, but giving it his all. It's the funniest thing ever," she continued. "Ryan's terrible. He's got a permanent frown anyway, I daren't go near him."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.