Former Coronation Street star Georgia May Foote revealed her struggle in finding acting work after leaving the long-running soap

Coronation Street star Georgia May Foote’s ‘nightmare’ struggle finding acting work(Image: TV Grab)

Former Coronation Street star Georgia May Foote opened up about her struggle finding acting work after leaving the long-running soap. The 34-year-old soap actress, who is rumoured to have split from her husband Kris Evans after being spotted without her ring, had to start a crowdfunding page to raise £12,000 after her beauty business burned down.

Georgia’s character, Katy Armstrong, joined the series in 2010 and departed in 2015. Katy was killed in an off-screen car accident in Portugal in 2017. Georgia went on to appear on many talk shows and reality shows, including Celebrity Juice, Strictly Come Dancing, Saturday Kitchen, and more.

Georgia opened up about struggling to find work(Image: Getty Images for Co-op Live)

She also appeared as Gracie Bradshaw for one episode of Doctors and was a series regular in the American fantasy-adventure series The Outpost between 2020 and 2021.

In a new chat with the Sausage on a Fork podcast, she admitted her work dried up after returning from Serbia from filming The Outpost. She said: “I came back in the December of 2020 and I just realised, ‘Oh my God, there’s no work.’

“Everything that got 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’s business also burned down(Image: gmfnails/Instagram)

She continued: “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.”

Georgia’s struggles continued when her beauty business, a nail salon, caught on fire and she had to start a crowdfunding page to get the company, as well as other businesses affected by the fire, up and running again.

“Within two hours the whole building was alight, and the whole thing burnt down,” the actress said. “We weren’t allowed back in there and nothing has been salvaged.

“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.

“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. But people have lost entire homes worth of stuff that can’t be replaced.”