Before Natalie Cassidy landed her job on the show, her dad didn’t really like EastEnders, therefore her family always favored Coronation Street.
Natalie Cassidy, an actress on EastEnders, disclosed that prior to gaining the role of Sonia Jackson in the early 1990s, she had never watched the show.
Natalie’s professional breakthrough came when she discussed it on the Comfort Eating with Grace Dent podcast.
She explained that her family had always chosen ITV’s Coronation Street to the BBC classic, which was why she had never seen EastEnders.
Natalie said: “We didn’t watch EastEnders, we watched Coronation Street in our house. Never watched EastEnders. My dad didn’t like it. My mum didn’t really, it was Corrie.”
Natalie went on to say how she always felt she had an “old soul” and that she was quite mature at quite a tender age.
She said: “I was like an adult at 10. I’ve always had a very old soul. I’ve always surrounded myself by older people, spoken to older people.
“I would go round a mate’s house, they’d go to bed and I’d sit with the mum. I’d be mates with all the mums more than the kids.”
This isn’t the first time Natalie hasn’t gotten personal about certain aspects of her life. Earlier this year, she was on Loose Women and made an admission with regard to her personal hygiene.
Natalie explained: “I like a bidet, it reminds me of my family bathroom when I was little. Mum and dad’s bathroom, there was always a little bidet in there.
“I haven’t got a bidet now but I do sometimes, on a warm day when I haven’t got time for a shower, fill up the sink and have a flannel wash.”
Natalie’s admission to both the bidet and the flannel wash stunned fans on social media with one user criticising the star.
They wrote: “By the time you have messed about having a ‘flannel wash’ you could have jumped in the shower. Flannel washes are such an old-fashioned thing to do.”
Another added: “Flannel wash, very Victorian hygiene trait. A shower is far more hygienic (top to feet), and quicker.”
