- Is a quarter Spanish from her maternal grandmother.
- Was engaged to singer Max George, having been in a relationship with him since December 2010, after he proposed to her with a £10,000 diamond ring and a Chihuahua the week prior to her 24th birthday (June 2011-July 2012).
- Announced her engagement to Mark Wright, having been in a relationship with him since December 2012, after he proposed to her with a 5-carat diamond ring on a beach in Dubai (9 September 2013).
- Younger brother Andrew Michael, born 1989.
- Her Coronation Street (1960) character Tina McIntyre is the second character on any British soap opera (the first being Sammy Winward's character Katie Sugden on Emmerdale Farm (1972)) to act as a surrogate mother.
- Her Coronation Street (1960) character Tina McIntyre became the 27th woman on the soap opera to give birth and the first character on the soap opera to act as a surrogate. Tina had a baby boy Jake (played by Seth and Theo Wild) for her neighbours Gary Windass (Mikey North) and Izzy Armstrong (Cherylee Houston), born on May 27, 2013.
- Is one of sixteen Coronation Street (1960) actresses who despite their characters giving birth on the show have never become mothers in real life. The others are Doreen Keogh, Anne Kirkbride, Helen Worth, Caroline Milmoe, Joanne Froggatt, Naomi Radcliffe, Angela Lonsdale, Vicky Binns, Georgia May Foote, Natalie Gumede, Ellie Leach, Nicola Thorp, Katie McGlynn, Dolly-Rose Campbell and Sally Carman.
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