Coronation Street star devastated as business burns down in fire

Coronation Street star Georgia May Foote, 34, has been left devastated after her business burned down in a fire.

The Katy Armstrong actress has been working as a nail technician alongside acting for the past four years, and took to Instagram to share the news.

‘Unfortunately my beautiful little studio was affected by a huge fire within the storage world unit in Middleton last night,’ she explained.

‘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.

‘Even though as beauticians we can move into a new space, our stock and tools, which we spend years collecting have all gone. We can no longer work. My friends and fellow beauticians have to literally start again. With no way of even making the money to buy these tools. Some of them have children.

‘I am asking if you could please help us all by just giving a little towards helping my friends rebuild their businesses. We would be eternally grateful.

‘Fire is the most devastating thing. Thousands of pounds of stock has gone in seconds,’ she concluded.

Georgia starred as Katy Armstrong on the cobbles from 2010 until 2015.

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

In 2017, she was killed in an off-screen car crash while living in Portugal.

In an Instagram Q&A last year, a fan asked if Katy was ‘disappointed’ that her character was killed off.

‘I wouldn’t say disappointed at all,’ she replied.

‘I’m one of those people when I leave a job I’m ready for the next adventure.

‘Corrie was an amazing nearly 5 years for me, I learnt so much and will forever be grateful for the show.’