{"id":362269,"date":"2025-08-21T14:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362269\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:36:23","slug":"itv-coronation-street-gemma-star-looks-worlds-away-from-soap-role-as-she-debuts-new-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362269\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV Coronation Street Gemma star looks worlds away from soap role as she debuts new look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coronation Street star Dolly-Rose Campbell, who plays Gemma Winter-Brown on the ITV soap, has left fans gushing after she showed off her real hairstyle away from the cobbles<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8_04_coro_gemma_lou_01.jpg\" alt=\"ITV Coronation Street Gemma star looks worlds away from soap role as she debuts new look\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>ITV Coronation Street Gemma star looks worlds away from soap role as she debuts new look(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/coronation-street\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Coronation Street<\/a>&#8216;s Dolly-Rose Campbell, known for her role as Gemma Winter-Brown, has left fans in awe after revealing her natural hairstyle away from the cobbles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Dolly became a household name when she joined the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/itv\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">ITV<\/a> soap as the outspoken Rovers barmaid Gemma back in 2014, quickly becoming a fan favourite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">She&#8217;s been at the centre of numerous major storylines, including giving birth to quadruplets and dealing with the recent death of her on-screen brother Paul, played by Peter Ash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/coronation-street-fans-rumble-costellos-35765257\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Coronation Street fans &#8216;rumble Costello&#8217;s link to Becky&#8217;s death&#8217; after clue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE:<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/corries-todd-grimshaw-trapped-dark-35762320\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> Corrie&#8217;s Todd Grimshaw trapped in dark spiral as horrifying Theo twist revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Despite her high-profile role, Dolly tends to keep her personal life under wraps and seldom posts updates on social media. However, she recently shared some striking new headshots that have got everyone talking.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_IMG_2676JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Corrie\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Dolly plays Gemma on the ITV soap<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">On her <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/instagram\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, she posted several photos of her new headshots, looking markedly different from her Corrie character, sporting much shorter, curly hair, reports <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/tv\/coronation-street-gemma-star-unrecognisable-35767671\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">the Daily Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Dolly captioned the post: &#8220;Headshots @joeolismith.&#8221; Fans and co-stars alike were quick to compliment her in the comments section.<\/p>\n<p>Content cannot be displayed without consent<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One fan commented: &#8220;Gemma needs to go for a haircut and come back as the real you! suits you so well!&#8221; Another added: &#8220;Love love love your natural hair you look beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sue Devaney, who plays Debbie Webster, also chimed in, saying: &#8220;Gorgeous Dolly! Love them!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">However, not all comments were positive, with some followers leaving &#8220;rude&#8221; and &#8220;unnecessary&#8221; remarks, one of which read: &#8220;Oh no Dolly this is aging you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Screenshot-2025-08-21-at-075440jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Coronation Street Gemma star unrecognisable from ITV soap role as she ditches wig\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>She showed off her real hair(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Dolly&#8217;s supporters quickly hit back though, with one follower stating: &#8220;Some people have no filter and are so rude! If you can&#8217;t say something nice, say nothing at all.&#8221; Another person wrote: &#8220;I know right! Some of the comments are just so unnecessary!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A third fan also commented: &#8220;You are so pretty @dolly_rose_campbell l&#8217;m a massive fan of the natural look. The comments on here from people saying it makes you look older are appalling!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coronation Street star Dolly-Rose Campbell, who plays Gemma Winter-Brown on the ITV soap, has left fans gushing after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[236,77,208,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-362269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-coronation-street","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-itv","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115067262454149921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}