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Coronation Street star reveals horror moment after being fed caterpillar on ITV set

EXCLUSIVE: Stephanie Davis has revealed she was left feeling sick after discovering a caterpillar in her salad while filming a scene, admitting she feared she may have already eaten more as the cameras rolled

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The Corrie star found a caterpillar in her lunch(Image: ITV)

Former Coronation Street star Stephanie Davis has revealed the stomach-churning moment she found a caterpillar in her lunch while filming an ITV soap scene.

The actress, who played Courtney Vance on Corrie and Sinead O'Connor on Hollyoaks, said actors have to carefully keep track of every mouthful they eat during multiple takes to ensure scenes match perfectly on screen.

Stephanie spoke exclusively to Daily Star in collaboration with WhichBingo, the number one destination for Bingo Sites. She explained: "One take, I had to pretend I was eating, because obviously when you're eating on screen you are actually eating the food, but as an actress you don't want to eat too much of it.

[Stephanie played Courtney in Corrie]

Stephanie played Courtney in Corrie

"What the viewer at home doesn't know is that in one scene there's the group shot, the wide shot, my single, whoever else's single, a two-shot, a cutaway... you're doing the same scene over and over again.

"And every time you're doing it, if I ate a bit of food on a certain line, I'd have to remember that I ate the food when I said 'sorry', so I'd be like, sorry, eat. I had to remember my food as well."

Stephanie said she'd already learned the hard way not to overeat during filming after being left ill from another scene.

"So in this one scene I had a salad, and I was trying not to eat too much of it, because the week before I'd done it with cookies and I threw up afterwards. I was that ill!" she recalled.

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Stephanie played Sinead in Hollyoaks(Image: E4 )

"So I thought, I'm not really eating it, but I'll have one big bite of this salad."

That decision quickly backfired. "And as I was filming, I was putting the salad in my mouth and there was a big caterpillar on it, and I freaked," she said.

"In my head I thought, if I've just eaten loads of caterpillars... honestly, I felt sick."

Thankfully, the creepy-crawly incident wasn't the only memorable mishap from her years on set.

"And then there have been things where I've fallen over, or a wasp has attacked me," Stephanie laughed.

"I've been attacked by wasps numerous times. There have been loads. I couldn't even think of them all off the top of my head."

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