Julie Hesmondhalgh

Soap Coronation Street

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Julie Hesmondhalgh had to tell Alison King to stop "feeling me boobs" during 'Coronation Street's 'Siege' scenes.

The 40-year-old actress - who plays transsexual seamstress Hayley Cropper in the ITV1 soap - has joked her co-star is a "dirty old b***h" who regularly groped her as they acted out scenes where her alter-ego was tied to a chair.

Julie told BANG Showbiz said: "We just had a laugh from start to finish to be honest. It was absolutely hysterical because Ali's so funny, and she's not at all what she looks like. She looks so polished and like a film star - but she's just a dirty old b***h really!

"She couldn't stop feeling me up when I was tied up. I was shouting, 'Get off me!' So many people would have paid so much money to be in my position, but I was like, 'Get off me - stop feeling me boobs!'."