Coronation Street’s Hope Stape star Isabella Flanagan isn’t the only famous face in her family with both her twin brother and her older sister also starring in soaps
Coronation Street star Isabella Flanagan is fast becoming one of the most recognisable faces on TV after she was cast as Hope Stape in 2017.
The 13-year-old star may be young but she has already featured in a string of gripping storylines. What viewers may not know about her is that she has some very famous siblings who have joined her in the limelight. Her twin brother, William, is easily recognisable as Joseph Brown in Coronation Street, while her older sister, Amelia, is best known as April Windsor in Emmerdale. Isabella recently paid tribute to her brother and co-star earlier this year when they both became teenagers.
Posting a picture of them on Instagram she wrote: “It’s our birthday, so happy to be becoming a teenager with you Will. Even if you do my head in sometimes. Love ya.” Isabella appears to have a strong bond with all of her family, who recently went to watch Taylor Swift perform on her Eras Tour in Anfield.
She shared pictures from the event on her social media as she excitedly wrote: “Taylor you are an absolute mad woman.” The family regularly enjoy days out in Liverpool, and even celebrated at PIzza Hut in the city when William found out he had been cast in his role in Corrie. Their parents Rachel and Chris Flanagan told OK! of the moment: “The biggest question people ask is, ‘How has this happened?’ And the genuine answer is, ‘I don’t know.’ “After Will auditioned I remember we were in Pizza Hut in Liverpool and the agent rang us and said, “Are you sitting down?” and she told us we were going to have three kids in soaps. It was just crazy. I don’t ever think things are forever but for the last six years that’s been our lives.”
Chris and Rachel do not work in the entertainment industry, with him employed as a store manager at TK Maxx, so Rachel insisted her kids haven’t inherited their acting skills from them. She said: “We’re big soap lovers but they don’t get the acting from us, they all just genuinely love it. We love that they all play such different roles. It’s hard to find a good part for a young actor but they’ve all got brilliant, brilliant characters – who are very different to them in real life!”
Chris also admitted they were worried people may think they’re pushy parents due to their children’s success saying that it “has been a reservation, thinking people might say, ‘Here they are, pushing their kids’ or thinking we’re making a fortune from them. But that’s absolutely not the case.”
Rachel agreed as he explained she is learning that she doesn’t “have to justify myself to people. Casting directors see hundreds of kids, and it’s ridiculously hard to get a part, and it’s also difficult to last this long,” she continued that ‘they are only where they are because of them, nothing Chris and I have done. Why wouldn’t they take these opportunities?”
