Coronation Street’s Tina O’Brien reveals Sarah’s ‘worst ever choice’ of man – until the next one

Sarah Platt has made some bad choices when it comes to men over the years, but actress Tina O’Brien is pretty confident that one of her Coronation Street character’s partners was worse than any of the others.

Sarah is currently embroiled in a fast-moving relationship with local bad boy Damon Hay (Ciaran Griffiths), much to the dismay of ex-husband Adam Barlow (Sam Robertson).

Though Damon has done some bad things in his time – bullying his own son out of Weatherfield being one of them – one of Sarah’s exes wins the prize for the worst of them all in Tina’s book.

Back in 2015, Sarah began dating drug dealer Callum Logan, ignoring warnings from her family that he was bad news.

It wasn’t until she discovered that Callum had been using her daughter, Bethany Platt (Lucy Fallon) as a drugs mule that she finally finished with him.

‘This was probably her worst ever choice in men!’ Tina revealed.

‘She did say I know what you’re doing, I know exactly why you’re after me, you want to stick it to David (Jack P Shepherd) and you think if you flirt around me that will wind him up, which it did.

‘Obviously he was Kylie’s ex but Sarah had been in Milan, she didn’t think she was sticking around for long. She thought she was going back so she just thought sod it I’ll have a bit of fun, have a fling and I’ll be gone in a week, what does it matter.

‘She knew that he was a bad boy, she trusted her brother enough to realise Callum was an idiot but at the same time she couldn’t help being tempted by him. I think maybe also the fact she was riling David had its appeal, a case of don’t tell me who I can and can’t mess around with.’

Things took a dramatic turn for Sarah when Callum attacked her during a 2015 live episode, but she was thankfully saved by Kylie Platt (Paula Lane), who killed Callum in defence of Sarah.

‘I don’t think she ever planned it to become anything serious but obviously it did and Callum ended up dead in the live episode.

‘I still remember very clearly having a meeting with the producer Stuart Blackburn who sat us down to tell us the plan and that it was going to be live. I was like wow. I was weirdly excited but not nervous, if someone told me that now I’d be terrified but maybe that’s because I now know how terrifying a live episode is.

‘It was an amazing end for Callum after how evil the character had been. It was also really interesting to play the fallout from that. How Sarah did not cope very well mentally, how David became very nasty, how Kylie became very caring towards Sarah. It changed the dynamic in all their relationships.’

With Sarah’s dating history, are things set to go just as badly with current lover Damon? Like many viewers, Tina is also fearing the worst.

‘There is just something about Damon that’s got Sarah hooked. He isn’t a pushover, they have a lot of banter, she isn’t allowed to get too big for her boots, but she likes his sort of old school charm. She loves how he’s a bit cheeky with her and he makes her laugh a lot, maybe that’s been something that’s been lacking in her life for a while. For her it’s how lighthearted the relationship is, the laughter they have together.

‘Sadly though, with her history and choices, I’d be surprised if things aren’t about to go wrong in some shape or form. Damon has that history, that dodgy background and the fact that Adam is so intent on splitting them up and getting Damon out of the picture I’m not sure they really have a chance. I have this awful feeling she’s about to get her heart broken all over again.’