Former Coronation Street star Georgia May Foote has opened up about the struggle actors face trying to find work.

The star, who is 34, played Katy Armstrong in the soap from 2010-2015. In recent years though, as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic and the writers’ strike, Georgia has found it challenging to find more acting jobs.

‘I came back [to the UK from filming in Serbia] in the December of 2020 and I just realised, “Oh my god, there’s no work.” Everything stopped filming in the UK then got put on a back burner, and then there was a backlog of what was about to start filming.

‘Then everything behind that took four years to come out, then we had the writers’ strikes’, Georgia said recently in an episode of the Sausage On A Fork podcast.

‘It’s just been a nightmare. And that’s why this has been the quietest I’ve ever been in my life. I think a lot of actors around the world will say the exact time.’

Away from life in the acting industry, Georgia previously opened a nail salon business. It was a place Georgia was extremely proud of but in June, she lost the entire company due to a fire.

‘Within two hours the whole building was alight, and the whole thing burnt down’, Georgia said, opening up about the upsetting ordeal.

‘We weren’t allowed back in there and nothing has been salvaged’.

In the aftermath, Georgia started a crowdfunding page in an attempt to revive the business.

‘Four years’ worth of products and stock and everything. We can’t get back to work without that stuff. It’s thousands of pounds of stuff. You can’t just go and buy it. I did start a fundraiser to raise some money for these ladies to help us get back on our feet and build our stock back up again that we’ve lost.’

Despite this life-changing event for Georgia, she revealed that she is still working hard with other jobs.

‘It’s passed the £12,000 mark. I’m really happy. It makes me really emotional to speak about it. I just know it’s a lot of women’s only income. I’m lucky that I still do my voiceovers and I do have jobs coming in. But, at the same time, I lost a lot of money in that fire.’

During her time in Weatherfield, Georgia’s Corrie character Katy fathered son Joseph Brown (William Flanagan) and had an affair with Ryan Connor (Ryan Prescott, played at the time by Sol Heras).