Coronation Street’s Samia Longchambon looks radiant as she enjoys a woodland walk with her family amid the coronavirus lockdown
She’s been holed up in lockdown after filming for the soap was suspended.
But Samia Longchambon has been taking advantage of her time off as she enjoyed a woodland walk with her family on Friday.
The Coronation Street star, 37, took to Instagram to share a sweet snap from the outdoors alongside husband Sylvain, their son Yves, four, and her daughter Freya, 10, from her marriage to ex-husband Matthew Smith.
Sweet: Coronation Street’s Samia Longchambon, 37, has been taking advantage of her time off as she enjoyed a woodland walk with her family on Friday
She donned a plain white T-shirt and beamed at the camera through a pair of statement sunglasses.
Samia uploaded the snap alongside a caption that read: ‘Team photo. One of my positives about the #lockdown has been exploring the local walks… definitely gonna keep this up going forward.
‘#familywalks #love #freshair #countryside #nature #couldntfitthedoginthepic [sic].’
Family: Samia uploaded the snap alongside a caption that began: ‘Team photo. One of my positives about the #lockdown has been exploring the local walks…’
It comes after Samia candidly revealed that lockdown has helped to ease her ‘all-consuming’ panic attacks.
The actress also let slip that the soap’s stars have two WhatsApp group – one for the women and one for men, which is supposedly ‘a bit rude’.
Since the long-running ITV soap stopped filming due to the COVID-19 lockdown, the show’s stars have been using the app to stay in touch.
The female actors have one WhatsApp group, while the men have another.
Challenges: It comes after Samia candidly revealed that lockdown has helped to ease her ‘all-consuming’ panic attacks (pictured with her two children)
Samia, who plays Maria Connor, sweetly said that working on Coronation Street is like having an extended family.
She told The Sun: ‘The boys have their own group. Theirs is all a bit rude. The guys all send each other naughty things and we don’t want to see what they are doing.’
While the mother-of-two has previously struggled with ‘all-consuming’ panic attacks, she says that the lockdown period has helped her anxiety.
She admitted: ‘I’ve found it’s really eased while being on lockdown. I’ve had social anxiety most of my life which has been very challenging.
‘I hope that by talking about it I might be able to assure other people that it’s normal too, and that it’s something you can deal with.’
Soap life: The star also revealed that she and her Corrie co-stars have been keeping in touch via men’s and women’s Whatsapp groups (Samia pictured as her character Maria)