When I want something I just wish for it and it happens
Soap star Hayley on why positive thinking will get her on to Strictly
Former Coronation Street and Emmerdale star Hayley, 41, swears by a self-help book of that name and credits it with making good things happen.
Author Rhonda Byrne’s tome suggests that visualising your goals can make them happen.
Hayley envisioned appearing on Dancing On Ice – then went on to win the TV show in 2010.
Her latest wish of appearing in a movie came true with a leading role in new Brit flick Eaten by Lions.
And next on her wishlist is dance show Strictly.
Hayley says: “I like to manifest things, I’m a big believer in The Secret and I try to live my life in a really positive way with no negativity. I read The Secret and manifested [Dancing on Ice] in 2009, I wrote it all over my fridge, I stuck pictures of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean everywhere and, in 2010, I won it. Then I talked for a long time about doing a film.
“I’d say to myself, ‘That’s what’s coming next’ – and then this came in and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s happened’. I was over the moon.”
Hayley has more movie roles in her sights and, of taking part in Strictly, she adds: “I’m hoping one day I can manifest that too.
“I would never say ‘No’ to learning a skill. I really like a challenge.”
The star is famed for playing Delilah Dingle in Emmerdale and Andrea Beckett in Corrie – and says she would return to either soap “in a heartbeat”.
“Emmerdale taught me everything about how to work quickly in TV, but I think my heart lies with Corrie,” she says.
“I found my feet there and I’m still best friends with so many of them.
“We see each other every week to the point where the directors invite me to things and say ‘It’s like you never left, we see you all the time’.
“My best friend is Dan Brocklebank [Corrie vicar Billy] – we’ve been friends for years.
“And Sue Cleaver [TV’S Eileen] and Beverley Callard [Liz Mcdonald] took me under their wing when I first joined Coronation Street. Sue housed me for the first month I was there.
“It’s a family at Corrie and I feel lucky I can still go to the pub across the road and they’re all there, they all open their arms to me. It feels like I never left.”
Hayley believes she gets comedy roles because she has a “funny face”. But she would love to do more drama.
She plays the matriarch in Eaten by Lions, a contemporary comedy about two brothers who go in search of their biological father.
Her co-stars include Johnny Vegas and Britain’s Got Talent’s Jack Carroll.
BONKERS
Hayley says: “The brothers end up in Blackpool, my home town, finding this amazing multicultural family who are all bonkers.
“It’s a very similar concept to my own family. Dad’s from Persia, Mum’s from Yorkshire.
“When I read the script it made me laugh out loud. I play the mother. I can’t believe I’m asked to play mothers now, it proves I’m getting old!
“She’s a funny character, and I’ve tried to put a bit of my own mum into her.”
Hayley says the
I won Dancing On Ice in 2010 after sticking pictures of Torvill & Dean everywhere HAYLEY ON THE POWER OF POSITIVE THOUGHT
cast were often in trouble for creasing up during filming. She says: “There were a lot of takes because we were laughing too much. “We’d have to calm it down. It was non-stop funny to film.” vikki.white@trinitymirror.com Eaten by Lions had its world premiere on June 21 at Edinburgh International Film Festival and its London launch at the London Indian Film