Coronation Street casts former Hollyoaks actor as new Weatherfield Gazette reporter

Actress Sarah Lawrence played Darlene Taylor from 2003 to 2006 on Hollyoaks, but now she’s starring in the ITV series Coronation Street as a local reporter.

Coronation Street will welcome a former Hollyoaks star to Cobbles next week, it has been confirmed.

Sarah Lawrence, who played Darlene Taylor from 2003 to 2006 on Channel 4, is currently on ITV.

Sarah will play a character named Viyona Lahiri, a reporter working for the Weatherfield Gazette, in footage that airs next week.

Back in February, Sarah teased her new soap role when she shared a mirror selfie on Instagram as she donned a Corrie locator jacket as she posed in her dressing room. studio.

She captioned the post: “Cold. Cold. So cold. I never want to take off this jacket.”

Her fans are thrilled to see her land a new role, with one writing: “Go you,” while another adding: “Yesss.”

It is assumed that Viyona will be the reporter knocking on Daniel Osbourne’s door in Monday’s episode.

Earlier ITV revealers revealed that a journalist would be snooping around after photos and videos of Nicky Wheedly’s sex work past were plastered all over the local school.

It turns out that it was Max Turner who maliciously shared pictures of Nicky with the rest of the school and got her suspended.

With no job and nowhere to live, the future looks bleak for Nicky, so Daniel says she can stay at his house.

When a reporter knocked on the apartment door, Nicky decided to give her a quote but she was horrified when the story went online.

It’s not certain how long Sarah’s character will last, but as a mother of three, she also wants to spend time raising her family.

Sarah has appeared in a number of roles including one episode of Holby City and two episodes of The Doctor in 2020 since leaving Hollyoaks in 2006 to focus on raising her children with husband Chris Moore. .

Before appearing in Hollyoaks, Sarah played Mel Adams in Grange Hill for two years.