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Emmerdale's April Windsor swaps the Dales for the Cobbles as she joins lookalike siblings on Coronation Street set

Emmerdale star Amelia Flanagan swapped the Dales for the Cobbles this weekend as she joined her lookalike siblings on set of the rival ITV soap.

The 13-year-old actor is best known for her role as April Windsor in Emmerdale, the daughter of Marlon Dingle and the late Donna Windsor, she has portrayed April since 2014 and fans have watched the teen grow up on screen.

The child star has been in plenty of different hard-hitting storylines, with her character having to cope with a lot of trauma from a young age.

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Recently she has been involved in a major storyline alongside her on-screen father, Marlon Dingle, after he suffered a devastating stroke, Amelia was praised for her acting after her character found her dad collapsed on the floor of their home in emotional scenes.

And while she may not be ditching the Dales just yet, the youngster joined her brother and sister as she headed to Coronation Street's Salford-based set to show her support.

Soap fans were left gobsmacked when they discovered that Amelia's brother and sister, 11-year-old twins Isabella and William Flanagan, play the role of cousins Hope Stape and Joseph Brown in the rival soap.

Fellow Corrie star Jude Riordan, who plays fan favourite Sam Blakeman, shared a snap of himself alongside the Flanagan siblings.

The four soap stars posed outside Coronation Street's iconic boozer the Rovers Return, they looked worlds away from their on-screen persona's as they enjoyed a day out.

Jude captioned the post: "Great day at the Corrie Cast & Crew fun day, Good catching up with Team Flanagan", it wasn't long before the comments section was flooded with compliments for the young actors from admiring fans.

@anne_connors1101 penned: "Absolutely love this Jude brilliant photo of you all and amazing talented young actors you all are."

"Awh that's so awesome you got to have a fun day with the crew and cast! Good you got to catch up with William and Isabella as well as Amelia from Emmerdale." @lydiaalty added.

@haleybee39 wrote: "Love these young actors!!" and @brownlorna964 replied: "Lovely photo .Glad you had a nice time," while @smurf9130 added: "So cute. Great pic."

Amelia has gathered plenty of awards during her time on Emmerdale, which began in 2004. She's won Best Young Actor at the Insider Soap Awards for three years in a row and The British Soap Awards' Best Young Performance in 2015.

Isabella took on the role of Fiz Stape's daughter Hope in Corrie in 2017 at the same time as her twin brother William joined the soap as Joseph. Impressively Isabella met the Queen whilst filming on the set of Corrie last year.

Mum Rachel runs a Flanagan Instagram account so fans can see inside the family's lives, boasting an impressive 10.9k followers, dad Chris regularly appears along with his family on the account and it seems fans love seeing what the kids get up to away from their soap storylines.

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