A Brookside star famed for a controversial incest storyline within the 90s is unrecognisable 28 years later.
She performed Georgia Simpson and horrified viewers when her character started a relationship far past displaying sisterly love along with her brother Nat Simpson.
However right this moment, the actress appears unrecognisable in her function on CBBC TV present Hetty Feather – 28 years because the controversial incest storyline aired.
The Channel 4 cleaning soap resulted in 2003, six years after the actress had left Brookside, which additionally starred Coronation Road actress Claire Sweeney.
She went on to pursue roles on BBC One’s Roger Roger, Lewis, Midsomer Murders, Unhealthy Ladies and Chilly Toes.
A Brookside star famed for controversial incest storyline within the 90s (pictured), is unrecognisable 28 years later
Helen O’Brien appears fully completely different taking part in an older character, Woman Asquith, in CBBC present Hetty Feather
That is proper, it is Helen O’Brien.
The Brookside incest storyline prompted uproar on the time and even some MPs had been requested to provide their opinion of the plot.
‘We’re adults, we love each other,’ was one of many traces Nat stated to his on-screen dad and mom to justify being present in mattress together with his older sister, Georgia.
The producer Phil Redmond needed to admit the present had gone too far and the Simpson household was written out of the cleaning soap.
The Liverpool-based cleaning soap was a success with viewers within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties – drawing 8 million at its peak – earlier than issues went downhill and executives axed the present in 2003.
Now, Helen is a mom of two and is married to British actor Timothy Watson, who starred within the BBC Radio 4 drama, The Archers, in 2016.
Timothy’s manipulative and nasty character Rob Titchener is married to a lady referred to as Helen however he could not evaluate his on-screen marriage together with his real-life one.
He advised MailOnline: ‘Consider me, I am nothing like him. Truthfully, I could not be extra completely different from Rob. Nicely, besides that we each have wives referred to as Helen.’
He stated: ‘How would my actual life spouse Helen react if I started behaving like Rob at dwelling? She would spot it straight away and would run a mile.’
After the second sequence of CBBC drama Hetty Feather, Helen’s character Woman Asquith – a hospital benefactor – moved to New York and he or she left the present.
Helen’s character Georgia Simpson acquired as much as some controversial bed room antics along with her on-screen brother Nat Simpson
After the second season of Hetty Feather, Helen’s character moved to New York and he or she left the present
Helen is married to actor Timothy Watson who starred in BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers in 2016 and so they have two youngsters
