Coronation Street star Mollie Gallagher looked almost unrecognisable to her soap character as she took a well-earned break between training for Dancing On Ice. Mollie, who plays much-loved goth Nina Lucas in the Salford-based soap, enjoyed a massage to help her recover from her hectic scehdule.
The soap star looked fresh-faced as she posed for a selfie at celeb hotspot House of Evelyn in Manchester. She looked so different with her raven tresses now blonde and worn pulled back from her face as she smiled for the camera.
"Feel like a new gal," she wrote as she shared the snap on social media. Mollie is enjoying her new-found love of ice skating for the ITV contest. Sharing a heartfelt message with a sad face on Instagram she wrote: "I love ice skating so much I don't want it to be Friday because it means I'm not ice skating tomorrow."
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In October she shared a glimpse of her progress. She looked like a pro already as she swooped around the rink after just a week of training. She wrote proudly: "First full week of ice skating training complete."
She continued: "Tryin' to be stronger for you. Ice cream, ice queen. And it's fine to fake it til you make it. Til you do. Till it's true."
She joins Olympic bronze medal-winning gymnast Nile Wilson, Love Island winner Ekin-Su Culculoglu, football star John Fashanu and former EastEnders actress and DJ Patsy Palmer in the line-up. Lorraine Kelly announced Mollie's participation on her ITV chat show.
Mollie debuted her freshly dyed locks on the programme as she chatted to Lorraine about being the latest Corrie star to swap the cobbles for the ice rink, following in the footsteps of 2021 contestant Sally Dynevor, as well as Antony Cotton, Brooke Vincent, Jane Danson and Samia Longchambon.
How are you feeling about it all?" the host asked to which Mollie replied; "I'm really excited! I've not really felt nervous yet, strangely but being here today I'm now feeling it a little bit." Mollie admitted that she's only done a touch of ice skating 'back in the day' at Christmas markets.
"Before the try-out for Dancing on Ice, I went on the ice to check I enjoyed it and might be ok at it. At the time I was holding onto the side and stuff but hopefully I can get round the rink."
She also confessed to "being good at secrets" as she managed to keep her signing from her family and friends. "I can tell everyone now," she added. Last September Mollie won her first National Television Award after winning hearts as café worker Nina, the niece of Roy Cropper.
She won Best Serial Drama Performance after taking centre stage for a harrowing hate crime storyline in memory of goth Sophie Lancaster. The ITV soap worked with The Sophie Lancaster Foundation, set up by Sophie's mum Sylvia who passed away in April. Sophie and her boyfriend Robert Maltby were set upon because they were members of the goth subculture and as a consequence of the attack in Stubbylee Park, Bacup in 2007, 20-year-old Sophie died from her injuries.
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