Being one of the most recognisable faces on Coronation Street, Jennie McAlpine is probably known in almost every Irish and British household.
However, her fame has also sadly attracted the taunts of vicious trolls online. Jennie, who plays long-time cast member Fiz Brown, revealed she has been called ‘fat’ and was also told that she ‘couldn’t act’ by nasty trolls on social media.
She told OK! Magazine: ‘When I returned from maternity leave, people wrote, ‘Why has she come back?’ It’s really not nice.’ ‘Reading those is a road to somewhere you don’t want to be, so I stay away from them.
It’s really easy to say ‘ignore it,’ but there are times in our lives when we’ve lost people or we’ve just become mums and we’re more vulnerable.’ Jennie
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