Coronation Street star spiralled after string of 'bad choices' since soap exit
Actress Georgia May Foote's time on the cobbles came to an end in 2015, with her Coronation Street character, Katy Armstrong, later being killed off in an off-screen incident two years later. It marked the end of five years in the long-running ITV soap.
She has appeared on many talk shows and reality shows, including Celebrity Juice, Strictly Come Dancing, Saturday Kitchen, and more, since.
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.
However, it's thought "bad choices" over the years have led to her career spiralling. And she's had heartache away from work too, with it reported she has split for her husband.
It's thought the 34-year-old star and hubby Kris Evans have gone their separate ways, with the actress wiping him from her social media. She also appears to have removed her wedding ring. Meanwhile, she has also recently been dealt professional heartache with her business burning down.
Georgia shared her heartache in June this year as she revealed the sad news on her Instagram. She shared a video on her platform in which she revealed that other people's businesses have also been impacted by the fire. She said: "Now as some of you may know I've been a nail technician now for the past 4 years alongside my acting. Unfortunately my beautiful little studio was affected by a huge fire within the storage world unit in Middleton last night.
"Not only has my business burnt down, but so has many other peoples. Along with peoples most loved possessions. My heart goes out to them all."
Now, sources close to the star have asked: "How much bad luck can one person take?" One insider told The Sun regarding her career: "It's a shame because she's not untalented but she's just made some bad choices and that turns the industry away and it turns fans away."
In a new chat with the Sausage on a Fork podcast, the actress confessed 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."
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."
But it wasn't just her on-screen career that was an issue. Her beauty business, a nail salon, caught on fire. She had to start a crowdfunding page to get the company, as well as other businesses affected by the fire, up and running again.
She explained how within a matter of hours. "We weren't allowed back in there and nothing has been salvaged," she said.
"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."
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