WHILST her character Cindy Beale has never been lucky in love - actress Michelle Collins has had a similarly dramatic love life. On the BBC soap opera , fans have seen how Cindy has had a rollercoaster year in love with her affair with Junior Knight taking centre stage. With it all set to be exposed during a dramatic Christmas Day visit to Walford, actress Michelle has confessed that fans will "hate" her character after the scenes.
Away from the screen, Michelle has had an up-and-down love life herself. The star has been open about her struggles with love and admitted that she was likely looking and focusing on the "wrong" things before finally settling down in her 50s. Michelle had told Kaye Adams on her How To Be 60 podcast about her romantic history: "I just seem to be one of these people who it's taken me a long time to find myself.
"I was maybe looking in the wrong places, looking for the wrong people." Michelle further said of her complex love life: "My life was a bit dramatic I suppose. I had a complicated love life.
"I worked a lot, but my personal life wasn't always great. I probably never met the right man in my life and I was a very strong woman." In the 90s, Michelle found love after cementing her fame as one of Britain's leading soap stars .
Most read in Soaps In the 90s, she began romancing Fabrizio Tassalini. The couple went on to welcome their daughter - Maia Rose - in 1996 but their romance did not last with the couple splitting just two years later in 1998. .
