Kym Marsh deletes Twitter account

Kym Marsh has deleted her Twitter account after receiving angry comments from Waterloo Road fans.

The Coronation Street actress had implied that the BBC programme should not have won the 'Best Drama' prize at last week's National Television Awards.

Hollyoaks actor Gerard McCarthy explained on the social networking site that Marsh did not want to deal with the "stress" of the backlash.

He wrote on Twitter: "Guys, just spoke to Lady Marsh... All is fine. She just decided to delete her account due to the NTA fiasco & people being nasty to her (sic).

"She is pregnant & her number one priority is her baby so it's really not worth letting a handful of idiots cause her unnecessary stress."

McCarthy later posted: "I will miss her Twitter banter."