HELEN Flanagan has revealed she’s ready for a Coronation Street return seven years after last appearing on the cobbles.

The actress, 35, found fame as Rosie Webster at just 10 years old, playing the role of the tearaway youngster from 2000 until 2012.

She returned to the show in 2017, two years after the birth of her eldest child Matilda, but left again the following year.

Though the exit coincided with her maternity leave, Helen wanted to pursue other projects and had grown tired with the character’s ‘b***y’ nature.

Since then, reality TV and modelling work has filled her schedule but she’s itching for an acting return on TV screens.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun, she said: “I’d love to go back to Coronation Street, but they just haven’t asked me and I live around the corner, but they just haven’t asked me.

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“I’d love to, if they asked me. I’d come back, but they obviously haven’t.”

Helen is currently busy learning her lines for panto season and her turn as The Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Liverpool‘s M&S Bank Arena.

She’ll be cheered on from the audience by her three kids – Matilda, 10, Delilah, seven, and Charlie, four – and her parents, who are hands on with the trio while single parent Helen is working.

“It should be good fun,” said Helen.

“The kids will love going to watch me so that’ll keep me busy because obviously I’m not with the father of my children.

“He lives in like Somerset and I live in Lancashire. So we live so far away from each other, which is really difficult when you’ve got three young children.”

She continued: “I hate calling it co-parenting because I don’t really feel like a co-parent to be honest with you anyway.”

Helen split from her footballer ex-fiancé Scott Sinclair in 2022 after 13 years together.

The star is reliant on her mum and dad, who live 15 minutes away, to help with childcare duties, admitting she would “really struggle” without their help.

“I have my children for the rest of the time,” she said. “Which I would never want any other way. I work most days.

“Always back and forth, you know, from London, like a yo-yo as well. My mum’s incredible. She really helps me bring up my children really. I’m very lucky to have that support.”

Helen defended her reality TV and sexy modelling careers, insisting it has no bearing on her talent as an actress.

Since her final stint on the soap seven years ago, Helen has appeared on I’m A Celebrity… South Africa and Celebs Go Dating. She recently finished filming Celebrity Ex on the Beach too.

She had a boob job in January 2023 and has launched a successful modelling career, sharing racy lingerie snaps on social media.

“I’m kind of like open-minded really. I’ve always enjoyed doing reality TV as well,” said Helen, speaking on behalf of WhichBingo.

“The last reality show I did was Celebs Go Dating. I loved that. I had literally the best summer. Like I really, really enjoyed it.

“I think there’s this thing as well. I feel like if you can do reality TV or modelling, it doesn’t make you any less of an actress.

“It doesn’t affect your acting talent. I think sometimes it’s silly when there’s that thing that you think, ‘Oh, well, if you’re an actress, you don’t do this’. That’s ridiculous.”

Helen’s Celebs Go Dating stint was controversial as she secretly began seeing her ex-boyfriend Robbie Talbot, 45, while filming the show.

In a programme first, Robbie was then incorporated into the series and they attended sessions with the relationship experts together.

Their year-long romance came to an end in May after they realised “they wanted different things in life”.

The experience hasn’t put her off the show and she’s open to following in Sam Thompson‘s footsteps by giving it another go.

Smiling, she said: “I could definitely do with some help I think with my dating life. I would definitely do Celebs Go Dating again. Without a boyfriend this time.”

However, Helen is focused on relaunching her acting career first and foremost.

“I’d love to do something on Netflix,” she said.

“I’d love to do period drama. There’s so many things I’d really love to do, but you never know what’s going to happen.

“You can’t kind of like force things. You’ve kind of got to go with the flow.”

In January she’ll hit the stage in The Memory of Water at Bolton’s Octagon Theatre.

It’s a 30th anniversary revival of Shelagh Stephenson’s award-winning comedy about three sisters who reunite at their childhood home ahead of their mum’s funeral.

“I mean it’s the perfect part for me. The cast is amazing,” she said.

“I’m just so looking forward to it. So it’s a brilliant start because I’ve not had two very good Januarys so far. So it’s a really good start to the year.”

At the start of 2024, Helen withdrew from the role of Miss Scarlett in a Cluedo 2 theatre tour when she experienced problems with her mental health.

Diagnosed with bipolar and ADHD, it was an adverse reaction to medication for the latter that caused Helen to experience psychosis.

Turning that tough time into a positive, Helen began writing a book about her life and mental health and it will soon be published.

“My book comes out in the end of January, which was something that I’ve worked really hard on this year,” she said.

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“I talk a lot about mental health in the book and I hope it is a comfort to someone that’s reading it, and I hope it makes them laugh. I wanted it to be funny as well and have humour in it, even though we’re talking about important subjects.

“It was kind of therapeutic for me, really. It’s been really empowering for me because that time was such a difficult time. And then to turn it into something positive, it’s been like a nice thing.”