‘I felt like giving up’ admits Coronation Street legend as she reveals she got ‘no auditions’ after quitting soap
BROOKE Vincent admits that she felt like ‘giving up’ after she got ‘no auditions’ after quitting the ITV soap.
The 31-year-old, who appeared on the Cobbles between 2004 and 2019, opens up her struggles during the next episode of ITVBe’s Drama Queens.
Drama Queens follows the real lives of nine soap stars who have starred in the likes of Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and Corrie.
The most recent episode Brooke broke down in tears over her ‘mum guilt’ when one of her young son’s fell ill while she was in London for a new job.
In an upcoming instalment of Drama Queens, Brooke tells a pal: “This time last year I was sit here and I was like what am I doing?
“I was getting no auditions. i was sat here like do I just give it up?”
Brooke quit ITV’s Coronation Street in 2019 just months before she gave birth to her son Mexx in October.
She then welcomed her second son Monroe in May 2021.
The mum took a break from acting, but landed herself a new job presenting Hits Radio with Mike Toolan while Gemma Atkinson was on maternity leave.
Brooke continues to her friend: “I almost feel like the radio was good because it eased my back in to the industry.
“I played Sophie Webster for 16 years.
“There’s so many others things I want to do.”
Brooke has been with footballer Kean Bryan since 2016.
The soap star is currently playing Amy in Syndicate The Play.
Drama Queens has followed her recieving the news that she’s in the production, and last week she went to meet the cast for the first time.
But she received a phone call saying that her son was unwell on the way there.
Speaking to the camera after she started to cry, Brooke explained: “At that point, I was like instantly overwhelmed.
“It makes me upset because I think… I get such mum guilt.”
She said in the back of the cab: “It is really rubbish. Ultimately there is nothing really that I could have done to predict he was going to be poorly.
“It’ll will be fine. He has literally just been sick. I think it’s just.. I constantly think, is it right that I go back to work?”
Brooke later explained: “Mum guilt is a thing, it really, really is. Do I just go and work in a job that is 9-5, that’s round the corner from home and just solely be a mum?
“I don’t know what the right answer is to be honest.”
Who is on the cast of ITV's Drama Queen
Drama Queens is a new ITVBe reality show that follows the lives of nine soap women and their real lives away from the chaotic world of soap. Take a look at all the women on the cast...
- Ellie Leach – Played Faye Windass in Coronation Street between 2011 and 2023
- Lucy Fallon – Currently plays Bethany Platt in Coronation Street
- Brooke Vincent – Played Sophie Webster in Coronation Street between 2004 and 2019
- Laura Norton – Currently plays Kerry Wyatt in Emmerdale
- Roxy Shahidi – Currently plays Leyla Harding in Emmerdale
- Amy Walsh – Currently plays Tracy Robinson in Emmerdale
- Rita Simons – Played Roxy Mitchell in EastEnders between 2007 and 2017 and currently plays Marie Fielding in Hollyoaks
- Jamelia – Currently plays Sharon Bailey in Hollyoaks
- Jorgie Porter – Currently plays Theresa McQueen in Hollyoaks