Georgia May Foote reveals ‘nightmare' struggle for acting work and turned to crowd funder amid split from husband
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GEORGIA May Foote has revealed her "nightmare" struggle for acting work after leaving Coronation Street.
The soap star, 34, who has just split from her husband Kris Evans, 35, also revealed how she had to turn to crowd funding to raise £12k cash after her sideline business burnt down.
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Georgia May Foote has opened up about her money struggles
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The actress started to crowd fund after her nail salon burned down
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It comes as Georgia has just split from her husband Kris Evans
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Georgia is best known for playing Katy Armstrong in Corrie
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Georgia - who joined Corrie in 2015 but whose character was killed-off screen two years later - has had a tough time lately, and has now opened up about how her acting work dried up.
Speaking about returning to the UK from Serbia in 2021, where she filmed CW drama The Outpost, she told the Sausage on a Fork podcast:: "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."
The distraught star then added: "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."
NAIL SALON FIRE
Another testing time for Georgia was when her beauty business was destroyed in a devastating fire.
She launched the nail salon after she struggled to find acting work.
But because of the blaze, she has had to resort to crowd funding to try and raise money to get the company up and running again.
Georgia May Foote reveals acting work has dried up and she lost 'thousands of pounds'
The actress had created a successful side-hustle to her acting by training as a nail technician and setting up a salon in Middleton, Greater Manchester.
On June 25, Georgia took to Instagram to report her salon unit had burned down.
She launched a fundraiser for herself and the other businesses affected while they await a potential insurance payout - yet was hit with flack from cruel online trolls.
In the same podcast, Georgia opened up about the impact of the fire, and said: "Within two hours the whole building was alight, and the whole thing burnt down.
"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.
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The star has struggled to find acting work since leaving Corrie
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"It's thousands of pounds of stuff. You can't just go and buy it.
Talking about the crowd funding, she said: "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."
Reflecting on how much the business means to her, Georgia said: "This has kept me busy every single day.
"It gives me a reason to get up every single day.
HEADING FOR DIVORCE
The Sun exclusively revealed how Georgia and husband Kris are heading for divorce just two years after tying the knot in an intimate ceremony.
The actress has removed her wedding ring and wiped all traces of the musician who she once called her 'best friend' from her Instagram page — including glossy snaps from their wedding.
A source told The Sun: 'Georgia's marriage to Kris seems to be over. It's on the rocks.
'She's looking to the future and is surrounded by friends and her family.'
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