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"Soap star Natalie Gumede has had a full makeover for a magazine photoshoot. Gumede, who plays Kirsty Soames in Coronation Street, showed off her look in this week&amp;#039;s Now magazine.  &amp;quot;You can&amp;#039;t be too concerned about what you look like or letting yourself go,&amp;quot; said Gumede of playing violent, upsetting scenes in the soap. &amp;quot;Sometimes real life is ugly - to show that, you have to forget your inhibitions. &amp;quot;Alan [Halsall, who plays Tyrone] and I have a great relationship - he&amp;#039;s funny, cheeky and upbeat, so that keeps us laughing between the tough scenes.  &amp;quot;It was upsetting for me the first couple of times I had to be violent as Kirsty. &amp;quot;It was hard to get to that place and come out straightaway, so I stayed at work for a few hours drinking tea, just to come back down.  &amp;quot;I thought [the public would] hate me but I haven&amp;#039;t been bashed over the head with a handbag or anything - yet! But people have shouted, &amp;#039;Leave Tyrone alone!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Read the full feature in Now magazine, out today (Tuesday, September 18). "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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