WHEN attending the TV Choice Awards you want to ensure that all eyes are on you, and back in 2019 they were certainly on Katie McGlynn, but for all the wrong reasons.

The Coronation Street actor reportedly had a “furious row” with Maura Higgins and her then boyfriend Curtis Pritchard.

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Katie was seen having a very animated conversation with Maura Higgins at the 2019 TV Choice Awards
Pictures appeared to show Katie, 27, tearing strips off the Love Island star, 30, but she says it was all just a big misunderstanding.

Speaking exclusively to Fabulous Magazine, she says: “I was cringing at them pictures because I do look really angry, but honestly, I’m just very animated when I’m telling a story.

“I get proper involved!” she laughs.

“I’d obviously had a couple of gins and I was telling them a story. It was all nonsense!

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Rumours suggested the pair had a “furious row”

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However, Katie suggests it was all just a big misunderstandingCredit: Splash News
“Maura and I are not best mates, but I’ve met her a few times and we get on. She’s a lovely girl.”

A representative for Maura previously agreed, telling The Sun: “These claims are false, Maura and Katie are friends and they even left together.”

At the time Katie also tweeted, putting her angry appearance down to her “animated” excitement around “new friends.”

Katie describes herself as “socially awkward”, but says she inherited “funny bones” from her dry-humoured dad, a talent she honed at school drama class by regularly doing comedy improvisations.

Later this month, Katie will show off her wit on Channel 4’s Stand Up And Deliver, a two-part comedy series in support of Stand Up To Cancer 2021.

Katie describes herself as a socially awkward personCredit: katiexmcglynn/Instagram
It involved her being trained in the art of stand-up, before taking to the stage for  a solo performance.

“It was so scary,” she says, lifting a Marilyn Monroe mug and taking a sip of oat-milk mocha through a big white straw.“It’s one thing being with your friends who you can bounce off, but when you’re stood on your own with a microphone in front of loads of people, it’s completely different.”

Did she get some LOLs?

“I think I did. No, I did!” laughs Katie. “That was my main goal – to get people to laugh and raise money for charity.”

In that department, Katie is well-versed.

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It’s been 12 months since Katie quit Corrie but she still gets messages about Sinead’s heartbreaking storyCredit: Rex Features
As a patron for Mummy’s Star, a charity that supports women diagnosed with cancer in or around pregnancy, which she got involved with during her final months on Corrie, she has since raised funds by selling £100-a-pop video messages, auctioning off dresses and taking part in Celebrity Catchphrase.

In January, in support of Cervical Cancer Awareness Week, Katie also agreed to have a smear test live on ITV’s Lorraine, to encourage women and girls to press ahead with their screenings during the pandemic.

More than 12 months after quitting Corrie, Katie still receives messages  from fans who decided to have a smear test after sitting through Sinead’s heartbreaking story.

“I’m flabbergasted,” she says. “I’ve had so many messages from women saying doctors found cancerous cells and now they’re in the all-clear.

“Then you have other messages that are really sad, [saying] they’d gone for a smear and the cancer is terminal. The difference of even two weeks can save your life if you go for your smear. You need to go.”

Watch Katie on Channel 4’s Stand Up And Deliver for Stand Up To Cancer, and  in BBC1’s The Syndicate next month.