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THE 42-YEAR-OLD ACTRESS' CHARACTER, MARIA CONNOR, WAS EMBROILED IN A FIERY FIGHT WITH TRACY BARLOW, PLAYED BY KATE FORD 11:31, 21 May 2025 Samia Longchambon got "hurt" after

Kate Ford accidentally yanked her hair when the pair’s alter egos locked horns in a scene on Coronation Street. The 42-year-old actress' character, Maria Connor, was embroiled in a

fiery fight with Tracy Barlow, played by Kate, who kept "pulling" Samia's hair after she mistakenly thought she tugged on hair extensions in a 2006 episode of the ITV soap.

Samia told the Mirror newspaper: "I remember Tracy threatened to rip out Maria's hair extensions. I don't have hair extensions, but Kate Ford (Tracy) properly went for it,

pulling my hair. "We do have good fight coordinators, but I am not going to lie, that did hurt." The star, who is celebrating 25 years on Coronation Street this year, also recalled

the time when the soap's bosses had to get Samia's midwife on set when Maria was giving birth to Liam Connor (Charlie Wrenshall) in 2009. This was because at the time of shooting

the scene, Samia was four months pregnant with her daughter Freya, 15, who she had with her real estate ex-husband Matthew Smith, and her midwife feared that if Samia pushed too hard when

acting, it could have harmed the unborn baby. The star, who married her 2013 'Dancing on Ice' skating partner Sylvain Longchambon in 2016 and has a five-year-old son called Yves

with him, explained: "At the time, I was giving birth to my screen son Liam, I was actually four months pregnant with my own daughter Freya. "Corrie said they needed my midwife on

set because for me to pretend to give birth, I had to push to make it look real. My midwife was getting concerned that I didn't push too much because she didn't want me to harm my

actual baby." Meanwhile, Samia's co-star Jack P Shepherd recently exposed her own near-miss on the set of Corrie. The David Platt star joked he had been "fake cutting

hair" for more than two decades, with David a hairdresser working in his grandmother, Audrey Roberts' salon. "David first started cutting hair at the age of 17 which would

mean I've mean cutting hair for 20 years," Jack said, to which Ben, who plays Nick Tilsley, commented: "What's fascinating is that you would never let him anywhere near

you with scissors, but in the show he looks professional." Jack continued to explain how he has mastered the "trick of the trade" of 'fake' cutting hair. He said:

"They're real scissors, because they're scissors from whichever makeup artist or supervisor is on that unit. So they just give me their scissors that are out of their

bag." He explained: "Usually I go to the back of the person of whoever is there, I take a section and go all the way down the hair using two fingers with the hair in there, and I

almost, almost hit the hair but I don't." However, that didn't stop former co-star Malcolm Hebden's, who is famed for playing iconic character Norris Cole, letting Jack

loose on his locks. Jack recalled: "Malcolm said to me, 'Have you ever done this before?' and I said 'no'. But he told me, 'Just have a go!'" While he

didn't say how it went, the 37-year-old shared how co-star Samia Longchambon, who plays Maria Windass, almost made a big blunder. "Samia nearly cut Kate Ford's (Tracy

Barlow's) fringe off," he exclaimed. Article continues below "She got her full fringe in her fingers and she almost went down. Kate stopped the take and went, 'Samia,

Samia, wait! What are you doing?!'"