Coronation Street fans gobsmacked to learn on-screen cousins are siblings in real life
CORONATION Street fans have been left stunned after finding out that the on-screen cousins, are siblings in real life.
The kids – Amelia (15) and twins Will and Bella Flanagan (12) – have been acting in soaps for most of their lives.
They’re most known for their appearances on, Emmerdale and Coronation Street.
When she was five, Amelia joined Emmerdale as April Windsor, the daughter of Donna Windsor and Marlon Dingle.
Four years later, her younger siblings, 12-year-old twins Will and Bella, played cousins Joseph Brown and Hope Dobbs on Coronation Street.
Fans on Reddit were shocked to discover that the kids were actually related.
One penned: “Excuse me if I’m late to the party with this but i was surprised to just find out that Hope and Joseph are twins in real life. I can see the resemblance now but Hope appears older. They also have a sister…April in Emmerdale!”
Another chimed in: “Wait what? Oh wow! I can see it now!!! I watch both of these shows.£
A third wrote: “Yes I can see it well with the twins! And Joseph looks more like the twin of April to be honest in age and resemblance!”
A fourth said: “Wow I had no clue either.”
The Flanagan trio has managed to captivate audiences while keeping their off-screen lives as normal as possible.
The siblings mum joked that although they play brilliant characters, their on-screen personas are totally different to what the kids are like in real life.
She added: “Casting directors see hundreds of kids, and it’s ridiculously hard to get a part, and it’s also difficult to last this long. So they are only where they are because of them, nothing Chris and I have done.
“After Will auditioned I remember we were in Pizza Hut in Liverpool and the agent rang us and said, ‘Are you sitting down?’ and she told us we were going to have three kids in soaps.
“It was just crazy. I don’t ever think things are forever but for the last six years that’s been our life.”
