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Close: Coronation Street lesbians Sacha Parkinson and Brooke Vincent turned up to the TRIC Awards today in matching dresses


They play best friends turned lesbian lovers on Coronation Street.

And in a revealing magazine interview this week, Brooke Vincent and Sacha Parkinson hinted that perhaps life is imitating art, saying they feel they are 'becoming their characters'.

And today the actresses, both 18, turned up to the TRIC Awards in London in matching flirty dresses.

The soap stars posed with their arms around each other in mirror image poses outside the event.


Sacha, who plays Sian Powers in the long-running series, wore a black version of the flouncy frock with textured material and bow detailing on the front.

The blonde actress wore nude platform peep toe heels and her hair loose.

Her gal pal Brooke, who has starred as Sophie Webster on the show since she was eleven, wore similar shoes in purple suede.

Miss Vincent went for an angelic white version, with her hair in a half-up bouffant 'do and a black cocktail ring on her finger.

Life imitating art? The actresses looked cosy inside the awards, after saying in an interview this week, 'We tell each other we love each other all the time. I think we’re really starting to become our characters'


The girls also looked cosy inside the awards, as they posed together with their show's award for Soap Of The Year.

Brooke and Sacha's cosy appearance at the awards ceremony comes a day after their very revealing interview and photoshoot with Heat magazine was published.

The girls hinted that perhaps their close bond off camera is even becoming something more, Sacha said: 'We just come as a pair now. We tell each other we love each other all the time. I think we’re really starting to become our characters.'

The actresses, who made made history as the street's first female gay couple, dressed up as Playboy bunnies in the racy photoshoot.

Sticking together: Coronation Street stars Sacha Parkinson (left) and Brooke Vincent insist that if producers break up their characters, they will leave the show


And they have insisted that they'll leave the soap if producers break up their characters' relationship.

Brooke declares: 'If they split us up, I’d leave. It’s made too much impact for them to break it up.

'It’s gone past the line. Me and Sach think we should win Best Partnership at the Soap Awards.'

The gal pals dressed up in blush pink satin Playboy bunny outfits, complete with bow ties, bunny ears and cotton tails for a provocative photoshoot and interview for Heat magazine.

Lounging against an ornate bar, the girls giggle and whisper in each other's ears as they work the cameras.

Seeing quadruple: The gal pals have participated in a saucy Playboy-themed shoot, and even revealed their celebrity 'girl crushes' - Rihanna and Nicki Minaj


The girls have also revealed their celebrity 'girl crushes'.

Both agree that What's My Name star Rihanna is their favourite. They add: 'And Nicki Minaj. Definitely. We just love Nicki’s attitude.'

The also actresses say they feel a responsibility to fans who can relate to their onscreen relationship.

Brooke, who has played Sophie Webster on the long-running soap since she was just 11, says: 'It’s mad when you realise how many people have come out because of the storyline.

'So many people have come up to us and said, “Thank you. Without this, I wouldn’t have been able to come out to my parents or have people accept me.”

'There’s a pressure to make it 100 per cent believable. Because we’re not gay ourselves, it could be like watching someone in a film trying to put on an Irish accent and getting it totally wrong.'

Sacha, also 18, adds: 'You don’t realise it at the beginning, but when you’ve been doing it for a while – and especially now because of Twitter – you get so many people saying things about it.'

In the soap, the pair play former best friends who have fallen head over heels in love.

Christian teenager Sophie was seen succumbing to her feelings for Sian in an episode screened in April.

Vincent said at the time: 'Sacha and I were friends long before Corrie and I'm so glad it's her. We've been to drama school together and known each other since we were six or seven.

Influence: The actresses, who plays best friends turned lovers Sian Powers and Sophie Webster onscreen, say they feel a responsibility to fans who relate to the storyline


'We've talked about it, we're so close so we'll be all right. I've just told her as long as she sticks to her own side when it comes to the kissing scenes things will be fine. But no tongues.

'It will also let other teenage girls know they are not the only ones going through it if they are experiencing something similar.

'Often there aren't as many lesbian characters on TV compared to gay ones so it's a really positive thing for the soap.

The full interview appears in this week’s Heat magazine, on sale now.


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