Michelle Keegan reveals heartache over ending of iconic show that 'felt like home'

Michelle Keegan has admitted she's heartbroken about the end of an iconic show from Northern England that "felt like home".

Since it started in 2019, the actress has played Erin Croft on Brassic. Now that the show has come to an end and her time as Erin is up, Michelle has shared her emotional reaction to losing the series.

She said: "It's really sad and for me it's felt like home. Every year, I'd go off and do other projects and then I'd come back home to Brassic as it was always at the same time every year. It was the nicest job to do because it was like seeing all your mates again."

The show filmed in places around the North of England, including Manchester, where Michelle is from. Having married Mark Wright and settled in Epping, Essex, it's not often that Michelle seemed to relish being able to head back up north for a shoot each year.

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The actress, who first came to the screen as Tina McIntyre in Coronation Street, added that she felt it would "hit" more when it's absence from her diary was impossible to miss. She told the Daily Star: "It's going to hit me more this year when it's not coming back."

Michelle was on Corrie for six years. Her character, Tina, went through several big storylines such as one centring on abortion after her affair with David Platt (Jack P. Shepherd), which ultimately resulted in argument between David and Gail in which he pushed his mother down the stairs.

Since leaving Corrie after Tina's death, Michelle has been in a lot of popular TV shows. Taking over from EastEnders Lacey Turner, she fronted season two onwards of army drama Our Girl, took on a lead role in period drama Ten Pound Poms and led Netflix's adaptation of Harlan Coben's Fool Me Once.

Brassic is another of her hits. The comedy about a group of friends in a forgotten town in the North of England, was a raving success and it's lead, Joseph Gilgun was nominated for several BAFTAs. Michelle told the Daily Star that she loved getting great reactions from fans: "I’m going to miss it. You got it a lot especially being back filming in Manchester where so many people would come up to you or stop in the street and ask about Brassic.

“People would come up and quote the famous lines or ask me what’s going to happen to Erin and Vinnie. It’s been great.”

She added that she knew from "day one" that it would be a success, it was just a feeling that she had. Michelle, therefore, wasn't surprised it lasted so long.

"I knew from day one. I had this feeling. You just knew it was going to be special. It was a feeling we all got on the set too when we started filming. I’m not surprised it’s lasted this long.”

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