CORONATION Street newcomer Sydney Martin was working at her local Tesco store when she landed her dream job. And the first thing she did after getting the call in April was to head down to the supermarket to resign. Sydney has now swapped Tesco — slogan “Every little helps” — for shopping in Corrie store Freshco.
She said in an exclusive interview: “My dad was like, ‘No, you shouldn’t have handed your notice in’. Then he said, ‘Are you sure? Have you signed the contract?’. “He even said, ‘You won’t get a reference from Tesco now’!” Sydney, 22, from Rossendale, Lancs , was watching the film Pitch Perfect 3 with flatmates in Manchester when she got the life- changing call to say she had won the role of wildchild Betsy Swain.
She said: “I just ran to the corner of the flat to answer the phone. I said, ‘It’s going to be a no, so keep watching the film’, and then my agent said, ‘Go hand in your notice’. “I was doing six days at Tesco, so it’s quite the career change.
“My flatmate picked me up and we just cried. We didn’t finish Pitch Perfect. I could not have asked for a better first opportunity.
“My parents are my biggest fans. They are over the moon. I had my first picture in a magazine recently and they bought ten copies.
” Sydney burst on to our screens last week as the daughter of Weatherfield cop DS Lisa Swain, played by Victoria Myers. She said: “I initially went for two smaller roles in January, but didn’t .
