{"id":26501,"date":"2025-08-27T12:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/26501\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:53:11","slug":"poisonous-war-between-tina-obrian-and-ex-ryan-thomas-over-nepo-baby-gcse-drop-out-why-tinas-beyond-raging-and-how-scarlett-left-20k-school-under-a-cloud-as-insiders-whisper-toxic-truth-to-kat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/26501\/","title":{"rendered":"Poisonous war between Tina O’Brian and ex Ryan Thomas over ‘nepo baby’ GCSE drop-out: Why Tina’s ‘beyond raging’ and how Scarlett left \u00a320k school ‘under a cloud’ as insiders whisper toxic truth to KATIE HIND"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Ryan Thomas<\/a> accused his ex-girlfriend Tina O\u2019Brien of smashing up his Range Rover with a baseball bat, it was widely assumed the outburst was to linked to the acrimonious collapse of their relationship.<\/p>\n

The wing mirror was apparently ripped off and the paintwork scratched following a famous row between the two actors in 2022 \u2013 one of many occasions in which tensions between the pair boiled over.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fair to say that tumultuous confrontations have been something of a regular occurrence ever since Tina and Ryan \u2013 who met while both starring on ITV<\/a> soap Coronation Street<\/a> \u2013 went their separate ways in 2009.<\/p>\n

I can reveal, however, that Tina\u2019s fury \u2013 then and now \u2013 has been driven not just by her differences with Ryan, but by the predicament of their 16-year-old actress daughter, Scarlett.<\/p>\n

Sources close to the pair say that contrasting approaches to parenting have caused real anxiety and emotion. And that, while Tina wants her daughter to get as good an education as possible, Ryan and his brothers, Adam and Scott, have been happy to see Scarlett get an early taste of the limelight.<\/p>\n

Scarlett has made it clear that she wants to follow her famous parents into the entertainment industry and appeared in the BBC<\/a>\u2019s Waterloo Road drama reboot in 2023.<\/p>\n

Yet last week, in a video posted to her TikTok page, the teenager disclosed that she did not sit her GCSE exams this summer \u2013 and hinted there might be just a touch of regret.<\/p>\n

The caption to the video read: \u2018I\u2019m watching everyone get there [sic] GCSE results today wondering if I could\u2019ve had good results but I will forever wonder.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Sources <\/p>\n

Sources close to the pair say\u00a0Tina O’Brien wants her daughter, Scarlett Thomas, to get as good an education as possible<\/p>\n

\"Meanwhile, <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ryan Thomas is apparently focused on Scarlett’s budding acting career<\/p>\n

The news that Scarlett seemed to have brought her education to an early end left followers on social media aghast. And it\u2019s increasingly apparent that it caused major turbulence at home too.<\/p>\n

For friends say that Scarlett left her \u00a320,000 per year school in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, \u2018under a cloud\u2019 just over two years ago \u2013 and shortly before her mother\u2019s outburst. It\u2019s not clear how Scarlett continued her education since, given that it is compulsory to do so until 16, but it is likely she would have been homeschooled.<\/p>\n

Sources tell me Tina,42, was \u2018beyond raging\u2019 that Ryan seemed to be prioritising his daughter\u2019s showbusiness career over her education. And that those tensions had made life difficult for Scarlett, then 14, at her private school.<\/p>\n

One insider tells me: \u2018Tina is a loving, sensible mum and was desperate for her daughter to have a normal upbringing and get an education, that was important to her. She is less flashy than Ryan and did not want Scarlett to rely on their showbiz connections.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tina wanted Scarlett to stay on the straight and narrow,\u2019 said the source. \u2018She is the strict one while Ryan seems to like his daughter\u2019s life in the limelight.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tina has been so wary of Scarlett being described as a \u201cnepo baby\u201d. She wanted her to find her own way \u2013 and get the tools and the education to help her.<\/p>\n

\u2018But it must be difficult being a teenage girl and being put out there by a parent. It must surely encourage certain behaviours \u2013 and there were some difficulties that began to really affect Scarlett and Tina just saw red.<\/p>\n

\u2018She tried to get Ryan to see it, but he wouldn\u2019t.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Scarlett <\/p>\n

Scarlett has portrayed Izzy Charles on the BBC’s Waterloo Road reboot since 2023<\/p>\n

\"Scarlett <\/p>\n

Scarlett often appears in TikTok videos with her dad’s family, including her uncle, Adam Thomas (far left) and cousin, Teddy (bottom left)<\/p>\n

\"Tina <\/p>\n

Tina and Ryan in 2007 – the year before Scarlett’s birth and two years before they split up<\/p>\n

While Tina \u2013 who split up with her husband Adam Crofts around Christmas last year \u2013 has tried to give Scarlett a low-key childhood, Ryan, 41, has been filming his daughter and posting videos of her since she was a child. So have his brothers, actor Adam and Love Island star Scott.<\/p>\n

This, I\u2019m told, has infuriated Tina. Back in 2016, Ryan \u2013 now engaged to former The Only Way Is Essex star Lucy Mecklenburgh \u2013 was publicly lambasted for filming his then-eight-year-old daughter singing in the back of his car while he was driving at the same time.<\/p>\n

Road charity campaigners at Brake blasted the former Corrie star.<\/p>\n

Scarlett has already had some success in her chosen career, best-known to date as schoolgirl Izzy Charles in Waterloo Road \u2013 the on-screen daughter of her uncle, Adam Thomas who portrays widower Donte Charles.<\/p>\n

Scarlett often features in videos with her famous dad and uncles as well as in \u2018Thomas Family\u2019 ones with the entire clan, including stepmother Lucy, half-brother Roman, six, half-sister Lilah, three, Adam\u2019s wife Caroline, and cousins Teddy, ten, and Elsie-Rose, seven.<\/p>\n

In a TikTok video from earlier this year, titled \u2018Who knows our daughter and niece best?\u2019, Scarlett asked a series of questions about, for example, her favourite celebrity crush and where she would most like to go on holiday. Her dad and uncles then tried to guess the answers.<\/p>\n

At one point Ryan stated his daughter\u2019s favourite drink was vodka and orange, despite her age.<\/p>\n

\u2018You can imagine how bloody furious Tina was about that one, can\u2019t you,\u2019 said a pal of the warring pair.<\/p>\n

\u2018Manchester is quite a small city and when you have a mum and dad who are famous it can cause problems.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tina wants her to remain as down to earth as possible while Ryan keeps pushing her out there. He is all about the connections you make and networking.<\/p>\n

\u2018For Tina, it is hard when Scarlett is exposed to all of that.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tina, who played Sarah Platt, and Ryan, who played Jason Grimshaw, became Coronation Street\u2019s \u2018it couple\u2019. In 2008 Tina gave birth to Scarlett but they split a year later.<\/p>\n

\"Scarlett <\/p>\n

Scarlett has 206,000 followers on TikTok and a further 142,000 fans over on Instagram \u2013 with both accounts launched when she turned 16 in October<\/p>\n

\"Tina <\/p>\n

Tina and Ryan’s characters, Sarah Platt and Jason Grimshaw, became Coronation Street\u2019s \u2018it couple\u2019<\/p>\n

Tina has made no secret of her struggles as her daughter becomes a sought-after young star.<\/p>\n

And it has only become more difficult since Scarlett joined social media. She has already amassed more than 206,000 followers on TikTok and a further 142,000 fans over on Instagram \u2013 with both accounts launched when she turned 16 in October.<\/p>\n

When, three years ago, I wrote a story which revealed fury among some Manchester-based actors that Scarlett and her cousin Teddy had \u2013 seemingly through their connections \u2013 won coveted roles on Waterloo Road (set in a school in Rochdale, north of Manchester), Tina went on the attack and posted furious messages on Instagram.<\/p>\n

While she is of course entitled to her view of my article, she did also give a glimpse into how tough it is to mother a young star whose father \u2013 and his brothers \u2013 seem determined to promote her young career.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019d love to explain to you how hard it is to deal with the backlash,\u2019 she wrote. \u2018How as a parent I will try to do my best to protect my 14-year-old child from a stream of hurtful comments directed towards her.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tina went on to explain how her daughter had attended drama school since she was four years old, and for that reason she was not only winning roles because of her famous parents.<\/p>\n

Tina herself is passionate about acting and runs her own drama school in Manchester, The Drama MOB, which discovered Adolescence star Owen Cooper.<\/p>\n

One of her friends told me: \u2018Tina absolutely loves to teach youngsters to act, she sees it as a form of art, Ryan is more into being a celebrity.<\/p>\n

\u2018Nobody knows where the feud will end but Tina just wants to look after her daughter the best way she can rather than put her out there on social media.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Ryan Thomas accused his ex-girlfriend Tina O\u2019Brien of smashing up his Range Rover with a baseball bat,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,118,18,117,19,17,19123,438],"class_list":{"0":"post-26501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-ryan-thomas","15":"tag-tvshowbiz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}