One of Coronation Street’s best-loved stars will be back on the soap opera if the actress can convince the show to call her back.

Helen Flanagan, who became a household man as Rosie Webster, is now ready to return after quitting seven years ago, when she became fed up with her character’s “b****y” nature and sought fresh opportunities.

“I’d love to go back to Coronation Street, but they just haven’t asked me and I live around the corner, but they just haven’t asked me,” she told the Sun. “I’d love to, if they asked me. I’d come back, but they obviously haven’t.”

Helen debuted in the show when she was just 10 years old. The actress, 35, starred as Rosie for 12 years between 2000 and 2012 before she exited. She then returned to the show briefly in 2017, two years after she welcomed her eldest child, Matilda, but exited again in 2018.

Helen was heading on maternity leave at the time, but also wanted to pursue other opportunities as she had grown tired of the character’s “b***y” nature.

Helen has worked on multiple reality TV and modelling projects since, but has now developed the urge to return to acting on TV.

She is currently preparing for her festive panto role as The Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Liverpool‘s M&S Bank Arena.

Helen’s three children – Matilda, 10, Delilah, seven, and Charlie, four – will be there to support her alongside her parents. “It should be good fun,” she said. “The kids will love going to watch me so that’ll keep me busy because obviously I’m not with the father of my children.

“He lives in like Somerset and I live in Lancashire. So we live so far away from each other, which is really difficult when you’ve got three young children. I hate calling it co-parenting because I don’t really feel like a co-parent to be honest with you anyway.”

Helen and her footballer ex-fiancé Scott Sinclair broke up in 2022 after 13 years together. She now heavily depends on her mum and dad, who live 15 minutes away from them, to help with childcare, and says she would “really struggle” without their help.

“I have my children for the rest of the time, which I would never want any other way,” she said.

“I work most days. Always back and forth, you know, from London, like a yo-yo as well. My mum’s incredible. She really helps me bring up my children really. I’m very lucky to have that support.”

Helen has appeared on I’m A Celebrity… South Africa and Celebs Go Dating, as well as recently filming Celebrity Ex on the Beach since her last appearance in Corrie. She also underwent a boob job in January 2023, having embarked on a modelling career and often sharing racy lingerie snaps on social media.