Rosie Webster

Rosie Webster is a fictional character in the ITV1 soap Coronation Street. She was originally played by Emma Collinge from her birth and, since January 2000 by Helen Flanagan.

Rosie was born on Christmas Eve 1990 to parents Kevin Webster and Sally Webster. Rosie was delivered in the back of a taxi and weighed 7lb, 5 oz.

Both Sally and Kevin have had affairs, leading to them splitting up many times, which Rosie and younger sister Sophie Webster have had to deal with as best they could. Rosie went through a phase of bullying at school and bad behaviour after seeing her mother being bullied and yelled at by violent boyfriend Greg Kelly.

Sally did remarry once but ended up getting divorced. Kevin also remarried and his new wife Alison had baby Jake. However Jake died in hospital before Rosie even got to see her baby half-brother. Alison kidnapped Sarah Platt's baby Bethany before handing her over to the police and committing suicide.

Sally encouraged Rosie's ambition to become a pop star and enrolled Rosie in a fee paying school. She has now remarried Kevin, although they nearly split up when Kevin found out Sally had been having an affair with the father of Rosie's friend. Rosie knew about this but kept it a secret when asked to by Sally, and when Sally denied the affair to Kevin, he decided to pretend he knew nothing and stay with Sally. There was a lot of tension between Rosie and Sally for a while after Rosie found out about the affair but the family settled down eventually.

Rosie and on-screen boyfriend Craig Harris shared a healthy-running goth phase, though this subsided eventually. She and Craig have slept together twice; after the first time Craig's granddad Keith and his girlfriend Audrey Roberts caught Rosie trying to creep out of the house the morning after. Rosie did not want her parents finding out but was scared Audrey would tell them. Audrey decided against this and Keith told Craig and Rosie not to do it again, however on New Year's Eve 2005 Rosie went round to Craig's and, while Keith was out, they slept together. Sally went round to wish them both a happy new year and Craig answered the door in his dressing gown, thinking it was a pizza delivery. Sally saw Craig in his pyjamas and Rosie's dress left on the sofa. She went upstairs and found a naked Rosie in Craig's bed. Rosie was taken home where Sally and Kevin yelled at her before she ran, crying, upstairs. Sally and Kevin were furious with Keith and Audrey when they found out they knew Rosie and Craig had slept together, and Rosie and Craig were banned by all adults involved from seeing each other any more, despite their protests that they love each other.

Rosie and Craig bunked off school to sleep together again home early from work and found them both. She dragged Rosie off to the doctors to get the morning after pill, despite Rosie's insistence that Craig had used a condom. Sally was undeterred when the doctor refused to prescribe the morning after pill, saying that he was not going to prescribe a drug that has harmful side effects to a young girl who's taken precautions and therefore doesn't need it, and took Rosie to another doctor. She forced Rosie, who was sobbing hysterically, to swallow the pill with a glass of water. Rosie later went with Craig to the doctor, who agreed to prescribe the pill. Rosie found Sally going through her schoolbag and told her she was taking the pill. Sally and Kevin went mad and called the police, who came round and spoke to Rosie and Craig. Sally was furious when she heard no action was to be taken against Craig as the sex was consensual.

Sally drove Rosie to the Yorkshire Moors in a Ford Focus to teach her a lesson. Sally lost it and they nearly died when the car skidded. Rosie later nearly died when she was hit by a car. Craig's caring attitude towards her after this incident led her parents to see how nice Craig really was.

However, after Charlie Stubbs evicted Craig's granddad from the house he shares with Craig, it looks like Rosie's boyfriend will have to move away.

Quotes

• (Rosie is holding some flowers) Rita: Are those flowers for me?
  Rosie: They're for our baby brother or sister (Rita walks off) Why would we buy flowers for her?
  Kevin: She was only joking.
  Rosie: You know when our baby brother or sister is born...where will we sleep?
  Kevin: Where will you sleep? On the roof, that's where.
  Rosie: Is that supposed to be a joke?

• (after her mum's husband left) 'Now Sophie, we've got to be very good for mum'

• 'David was right. He said when your parents split up they don't have time for you any more.'

• (after Roy Cropper chucked her out of his cafe) 'This is discrimination against goths'

• (To her parents about her and Craig sleeping together) 'You hardly set me a good example, did you? Lying and cheating. At least me and Craig love each other.'

• 'I love you, Craig'

• Sally: You are not setting foot outside this house and you are never seeing Craig again
  Rosie: (crying) I HATE YOU!

Family

• Mother: Sally Webster
• Father: Kevin Webster
• Sister: Sophie Webster
• Half-Brother: Jake Webster (deceased) (same father)