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By Ben Todd

Glamour on the cobbles: Coronation Street's Rosie Webster, played by Helen Flanagan, wants to become Weatherfield's answer to Jordan


One is a TV institution that has been a fixture in the nation’s living rooms for almost 50 years.

The other is a surgically enhanced model who made a career from scantily-clad poses and outrageous antics.

But despite being one of Britain’s most controversial celebrities, Katie Price – aka Jordan – is deemed so socially important a new Coronation Street plotline features one of the characters wanting to emulate her.

Rosie Webster, played by actress Helen Flanagan, stuns her family when she decides she wants to be the ‘new Jordan.’

The character, who is 18 in the show, has a test photo shoot, dressed in provocative outfits.

In one photograph, she wears a white and red cheerleader’s top, with the words: ‘Pop My Cherry’ emblazoned on the back.

While in another, she wears a corset and thigh high stocking as she hitches up her skirt.

What will her parents say? Rosie Webster in her revealing outfit


Rosie is seen for the first time in the ‘Pop My Cherry’ outfit tonight when she takes a job as a promotions girl for a cherry vodka company.

She is seen rollerskating around Weatherfield in the outfit, leaving father Kevin furious.

The episode is also being shown before the 9pm watershed.

Last night, Vivienne Pattison, from Mediawatch, said: ‘This is a pre-watershed programme – but I don’t think this is suitable viewing before the watershed.’

Teenage temptress: Rosie in one of her glamour model costumes

Even more raunchy photographs of Rosie’s burgeoning glamour career will then be featured on the Coronation Street website.

Miss Flanagan said of her character: 'The whole cherry vodka promotions job leads on to Rosie becoming a glamour model which I'm very excited about! It's perfect for her.'

It is not the first time in recent months the soap opera has been accused of being too risqué, with regards to Rosie's character.


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In September, raunchy footage of her stripped on the cobbles were again deemed too risqué for the TV show – but not for the Weatherfield watchers on the internet.
The scene showed the young Webster throwing off her coat to reveal a sexy basque, stockings and suspenders in attempt to seduce a rival's boyfriend.
TV viewers saw an edited version that merely showed Rosie strolling down the street. The programme finished as she began to undress.
And earlier this year, the programme featured Rosie dressed in knickers and a white basque that could barely contain her cleavage. The plot-line focussed on Rosie as a Lolita-style seductress having an affair with her tutor.
Ms Flanagan said of the character recently: 'Rosie is outrageous and such a madam and I love playing her. I get to do things that I would never dare do.'
Jordan, meanwhile, rose to fame as a glamour model. In recent years, she has become a favourite of the celebrity magazines.
ITV paid £350,000 for her to appear on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here - but she walked out after a week.
She had first appeared on the show in 2004, when she met her, now, ex-husband Peter Andre.


source: dailymail