Coronation Street's Stephanie Davis 'felt sick' after discovering she got job which she says was 'fate'

New Coronation Street star Stephanie Davis has told how she ended up 'feeling sick' after finding out she got her first TV job in three years. The former Hollyoaks actress has been cast as Courtney Vance in the ITV soap for an upcoming saucy affair storyline.

It was said at the time of her casting announcement that 30-year-old Stephanie, who will be known for playing Sinead O'Connor in Channel 4's Hollyoaks, will play the glamorous wife of Darren, one of Dev Alahan's new business associates. And it won't be long before she begins to pursue a fling with Dev's teen son Aadi Alahan.

Stephanie's audition for Corrie marked the first since she decided to return to work since welcoming her son, Caben Albi, in 2017 with her TV personality ex-Jeremy McConnell. "All this was fate, it's crazy really," Stephanie started when talking about how she got the role in Corrie.

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"I took time out to be a mum to my little boy Caben and I said to my partner, 'I need to get back to work. I need to hear rolling up and action. I need to do what I love again'. I said I was going to get a new agent and have a fresh start and so I applied for a new agent and on the day I went to meet her, she said, 'What do you want to do?' and I said, 'I want to do Coronation Street. And throw in a Panto as well for Christmas', laughing and joking with her."

She continued: "She was taken aback and [said] people are usually like, 'anything that comes up,' but I was like no, I want to do Coronation Street."

Stephanie was actually getting her eyelashes done when she got the call from her agent to reveal a part had come up on Corrie. "You know when you have that feeling that