Michelle Keegan didn’t understand why Tina McIntrye would fall for Peter Barlow.
The 26-year-old actress’ barmaid alter-ego is going to meet a sticky end when she falls to her death after an argument with a mystery killer, as part of a storyline which has seen her become romantically involved with Weatherfield’s resident alcoholic and bigamist.
However, Michelle admits she wasn’t on board with the liaison at first and it took her a while to understand why Tina would have got near Peter.
She told new! magazine: "I’m going to be honest, when I first heard about the storyline I didn’t quite understand why Tina would do that. She’s someone with good morals and she would do that to a girl, let alone a friend like Carla.
"So I was really worried, because I thought it wouldn’t make sense. Obviously you just have to go along with it, but now I’m doing it, I understand it a bit more and I put it down to the fact that she’s very vulnerable and has been hurt a lot of times before."
Despite deciding to leave the show of her own accord, Michelle feels sad about her exit and couldn’t help taking home a few choice items from the set to remind her of her six years on the show.
Revealing what she stole on her last day of filming, she listed: "A beer mat, my earrings and maybe a few items of clothing!"
Michelle had a blast celebrating the demise of Tina with a night out in Manchester honouring the feisty barmaid.
She added: "It was a Manchester Tina theme – a lot of people had their hair up in a bun with earrings. It was saying goodbye to Tina, really. It was the last time people were going to see her and the last time I was going to play her."
Michelle Keegan didn’t understand Tina affair
