Michelle Keegan admits she was once as skint as her character and would steal food

Michelle Keegan’s childhood was a fary cry from her life as a star actress in a multi-million-pound mansion and he or she remembers scavenging from neighbours and stealing meals

Brassic star Michelle Keegan says she was as soon as as skint as her character – and sometimes scavenged meals from neighbours or swiped it from farmers’ fields.

The 34-year-old star, who now lives in a multi-million-pound mansion, instructed how she used to climb over fences to get herself some grub – like the youngsters led by the Suave Dodger did for gangmaster Fagin in Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist.

Requested if she was like certainly one of Fagin’s road urchins after revealing her antics, Michelle stated: “Trying again at my childhood now, sure, I ­most likely was. It appears like I used to be a bit pest, ­scavenging meals.

“I lived subsequent to a girl and gent referred to as Pat and Martin and I used to climb over their fence. I bear in mind the bread they’d give me. The lower was so thick it was like a door stopper.

“On the opposite aspect, I had Brenda and Barry and so they used to get me ice cream with a Flake. I used to climb over the opposite fence to get my ice cream off them.”

Michelle, who performs tearaway Erin in hit Sky One comedy Brassic, additionally confessed to serving to herself to greens from farm fields behind her backyard.

“They used to develop lettuces, carrots and potatoes. We by no means used to go to the grocery store,” she stated. “We used to get our greens. We had been nicking greens off that farmer. Climbing over fences getting meals.”

And the previous Corrie star revealed she wasn’t the one one in her household placing meals on the desk from wherever they may get it. She stated her mom Jackie, who was a college cook dinner, would typically smuggle out hen drumsticks and hen dinosaurs.

Michelle, who lives in Essex with ­husband Mark Wright, not too long ago threw a lavish 60th birthday bash for her mum again dwelling in Manchester.

And reflecting on her antics as a teen, she added: “To be honest, mum and pop saved some huge cash after I was rising up.”