Helen Flanagan certainly hasn’t been backward in coming forward in recent years: she’s more than ready to make her return to Coronation Street.

Helen is utterly beloved by soap fans for her portrayal of former-goth-turned-glamour girl Rosie Webster, Kevin and Sally Webster’s (Michael Le Vell and Sally Dynevor) eldest daughter.

She was originally cast all the way back in 2000, at the incredibly tender age of nine years old and remained in the role for twelve years, until departing in 2012.

She later reprised the role between 2017 and 2018 for a short stint, before taking maternity leave; a break that would ultimately become permanent, as Helen undertook numerous reality TV projects, appearing in I’m a Celebrity… (both the UK and South Africa versions), Celebs Go Dating and Celebrity Ex On The Beach.

Though Helen’s forged a career as one of the UK’s most visible (and, at times, controversial) celebrities, fans of both Helen and Coronation Street have always had one question: will we ever see Rosie’s impeccably bouncy blow dry grace the cobbles again?

Would Helen Flanagan return to Coronation Street?

Being interviewed by the Echo recently as she stars in a production of The Memory of Water at the Liverpool Everyman, Helen revealed that she’s more than ready to slip back into Rosie’s stilettos.

‘Honestly if they want me to come back, I’d love to, but [show bosses] just haven’t spoke to me. Everybody always asks me, ‘When are you going back to Corrie? And it’s like, ‘They haven’t called me’. If you want to call me, that’s great. But they haven’t.’

Revealing why she feels like the time is right for a Corrie comeback, Helen said: ‘I just really want to concentrate on my acting now.’

I feel really lucky. All my children are now at school so I want to concentrate on my career,’before commenting: ‘I’ve been very lucky. I’m just a normal Northern, down to earth mum. I’ve been very lucky to have opportunities in the career I’ve had.’

This isn’t the first time Helen has been vocal about wanting a return to the show that kicked off her career, telling The Sun last year: ‘I’d love to go back to Coronation Street, but they just haven’t asked me, I live around the corner, but they just haven’t asked me.’

Life on Coronation Street

Helen recently released her first autobiography, Head & Heart: Break-ups, Breakdowns and Being Rosie, in which she opened up about some of her more troubling times behind the scenes of Coronation Street, revealing that former co-star Antony Cotton had once reduced her to tears as she was already struggling with her mental health.

‘The actor Antony Cotton, who played barman Sean Tully, once reduced me to tears when he took the mickey out of the fact I was on medication,’ she began.

”Here comes Helen Flanagan,’ he said. ‘You hear her rattling before you see her.’ To him it was a joke for a few cheap laughs, but this was my life.‘I didn’t respond, I was too broken. Instead, I went to the toilets and bawled my eyes out.’

Metro reached out to both Coronation Street and representatives for Antony Cotton for comment at press time.

She also discussed another co-star, Alison King’s fury over the portrayal of Rosie during her much-publicised storyline with John Stape (Graeme Hawley) with the Mirror in which the teenager was portrayed as ‘seductress’, rather than a vulnerable young person exploited by her teacher.

‘Was it morally right that I was expected to parade about in my knickers like some mad nymphomaniac when I was still just a teenager?

‘Alison King, who plays Carla Connor, once kicked off in the green room, saying how disgusting it was that they were sexualising me when I was a young girl. I didn’t fully comprehend what she was talking about at the time. I do now. I get it.

‘I had to do kissing and bedroom scenes with a man a lot older than me. Obviously, the actor was lovely, but I don’t think it would happen now. When you’re 16, you don’t really know what’s going on, and I was just happy to get the big storylines. But I had scenes as Rosie, which didn’t always sit comfortably with me. I felt minging post-shoot.