Publisher's Synopsis
Helen Joyce Gabriel Flanagan, born in Bury, Greater Manchester, on August 7th 1990, attending Westholme School in Blackburn, Lancashire, is an actress, model, and television personality. She is best known for playing the role of Rosie Webster in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2000 to 2012, returning to the role in February 2017. She was voted the most attractive British celebrity in the 2013 FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll. Flanagan first appeared as Rosie Webster in Coronation Street in January 2000. In 2006, she was nominated for the award of "Best Dramatic Performance from a Young Actor or Actress" at the British Soap Awards, losing to Ellis Hollins of Hollyoaks. In 2007, she was nominated for "Villain of the Year" at the same awards, this time losing to Coronation Street co-star Jack P. Shepherd. In 2010, Flanagan appeared in Coronation Street spin-off Coronation Street: A Knights Tale as her character Rosie Webster. Then in 2011, she had her own Coronation Street spin-off Just Rosie, which explored her character, trying to build a modeling career in London. In October 2011, Flanagan announced that she would leave Coronation Street in February 2012 to pursue other interests. In November 2012, Flanagan participated in the twelfth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, finishing in seventh place out of the 12 celebrities who appeared. In September 2013 she appeared in Celebrity Super Spa, a reality-television programme based in a Liverpool Salon on Channel 5. Also in 2013, Flanagan appeared in the music video for 'The Neo-Kalashnikovs' song "Gorgeous Baby". In January 2014, Flanagan starred in an episode of Celebrity Wedding Planner, along with Hugo Taylor on Channel 5. The following August she appeared as agency nurse Kirsty Brompton, in an episode of Holby City. In October 2016 it was announced Flanagan would return to her role as Rosie in Coronation Street in February 2017. Flanagan posed topless as a Page 3 girl, in the 10 September 2013 edition of The Sun, which was a case of life imitating art, as in 2010 her character Rosie Webster had become a topless model, to her screen parents' dismay. Flanagan has been in a relationship with Celtic FC winger Scott Sinclair since 2009, with whom she lives. In December 2012, she spoke of her battle with depression and anxiety, stating that she had been prescribed medication for ADHD and bipolar disorder.
