Stephanie Davis admits her headline grabbing love life has made people write her off as a reality star and forget she is a serious actress
SOUNDS like Stephanie Davis regrets making headlines for over a year with her dramatic on-off relationship with Jeremy McConnell.
The 24-year-old Celebrity Big Brother star thinks all the highs and lows of her turbulent relationship with Jezza, 27, have ruined her acting achievements.
Steph – who starred in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks between 2010 and 2015 – fears she is now written off as a reality star and that everyone has forgotten her struggle to make it as a serious actress.
Appearing on Simon Goss’s The Showbiz Show, Steph opened up about how her life has changed for the worst since becoming a prolific point of comment on social media and in the press.
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"I feel everyone’s got a bit lost in the whole… they’ve categorised me as this reality TV star and that’s not me. And never has been," she said.
"I’ve worked god damn hard since I was younger. All the shows, and the grafting I’ve done and the auditions and everything, you know?" she added.
She hinted she has seen the dark side of fame in the 14 months since she left appeared on Celebrity Big Brother - and suggested she wishes she could become an unknown.
"Growing up in the showbiz world... everyone thinks 'showbiz! It’s amazing'. And they never see that dark side," she said of her struggles of being in the limelight.
";Everyone wants to be famous but when they get it, it’s like you wish you could just go back," Steph said.
Sounding a little more positive, Steph hinted she wants to return to the world of acting.
"Obviously I was known for my acting first and that got a bit lost with everything. So I do want to get back into my acting," she said.
While confessing she struggles with fame, Steph also admitted the fame game is the only way of life she knows.
"It’s just kind of something, ‘cause I was at a young age getting into that kind of showbiz world, it’s all I’ve ever grown up knowing," the TV star said.
Steph gave birth to her first child, Caben-Albi, in January following an explosive on-off relationship with MTV and CBB star Jeremy McConnell.
The pair generated huge interest in their personal relationship by taking public swipes at each other via social media for almost a year as their relationship crashed and burned by Steph then fell pregnant.
Attention reached a near deafening level in January with the birth of baby Caben and Jeremy's paternity was proven with a televised This Morning DNA test.
Steph and Jezza have since grown close again since the birth of their son.
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