Corrie’s Tina O’Brien opens up about her screen character, ‘unlucky-in-love’ Sarah, her bad boy, and following in her on-screen mum’s footsteps...
Any Corrie fan will know that the course of true love never runs smooth, especially for Sarah Platt – just ask Tina O’Brien, the actress who plays her.
But when Sarah tied the knot with Adam Barlow, it seemed she’d found her happy ending – until she had an affair with Damon Hay and fell pregnant, ultimately leading to the pair’s bitter split.
Now, Sarah’s embarked on a relationship with Damon – the brother of dangerous gangster Harvey, who’s currently in prison. Determined to get Damon out of the picture, heartbroken lawyer Adam has teamed up with the offender to help win his appeal. Over the next two weeks on Corrie, Adam will try to win Sarah back – but his actions put her in major danger… Here, 40-year-old Tina – who is mum to daughter Scarlett, 15, with ex Ryan Thomas, and son, Beau, nine, with husband Adam Crofts – reveals more about the shocking soap twists and turns...
Hi Tina. Sarah doesn’t have the best track record with men does she?
Yeah, she’s moving very fast (with Damon). If I was her friend I’d be having strong words with her. She thinks the feelings are love, but maybe it’s more that she’s swept up in the romance and the lust, so I’m definitely concerned for her.
Sarah does seem to love a bad boy....
She does tend to go for a bad boy, but I can totally understand why she likes Damon. They just get each other..., so it’s very easy for her to think, ‘This is it – this is forever.’ Also, Damon’s not messing her around, he’s saying, ‘I only want you, I want to be with you, I want to make this work’ and she likes that. And they’ve hit the ground running because they’ve had this previous time together.
Does she think Damon’s ‘the one’?
She’s trying to believe he’s the one. On New Year’s Eve, she ended up nearly getting back with Adam. There’s still something there and if Adam had said they could give it another chance after their last disastrous break-up, I think she would have made the marriage work. But the fact that he made it so clear it was over made her step away. I think she still has feelings for him, but maybe she’s lying to herself…
Instead Adam’s been scheming against Damon with Harvey....
She’s really shocked. She knows that he doesn’t like Damon, but something like that could threaten his career – he could lose everything and I don’t think she’d believe he could behave like that.
Like mother, like daughter
Tina has been on the Cor
