Kym Marsh has admitted she had a massive teenage crush on her Corrie co-star Steve McDonald before they became on-screen lovers.
The former Hear'Say singer, 44, dropped the secret bombshell on Simon Gregson - who plays Steve - when she joined the soap in 2006.
It was like a dream come true for the actress as she ended up becoming his wife on-screen. She told The Sun : "It was bizarre.
I told Simon when I started that when I was younger I had a poster of him on my bedroom wall." Kym explained her crush on Simon's character as "very strange" and said she first laid her eyes on him at a gig in Manchester when she was "about 14 or 15".
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