Corrie star: 'Carla is being selfish'

Coronation Street actress Alison King has admitted that she disapproves of the way her character Carla Connor is behaving in her latest storyline.

Carla has failed to give personal assistant Maria (Samia Smith) her full support after hearing that factory client Frank Foster (Andrew Lancel) tried to force himself on her during an informal business meeting at his home.

Next week, events take a new twist when Carla agrees to go into partnership with Frank at the factory, leaving Maria devastated.

In an interview with Inside Soap, King commented: "Carla's turned a blind eye to what happened to Maria. She thinks that letting Frank buy into the business is a positive thing because everyone gets to keep their jobs and she can keep the company afloat.

"But I do think it's quite selfish of Carla not to take Maria's feelings into account."

The star added that Carla is failing to see the part that she played in creating the mess in the first place.

"Carla needs to stop getting her mates in to work as her personal assistant as it always goes horribly wrong," she explained. "At the end of the day, Carla gave Maria some really bad advice in advising her to go round to Frank's house all glammed up.

"I think Carla knew at the time it wasn't a very sensible thing to do, but she's done it herself in the past and takes no responsibility for what happened."

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