Sophie's storylines have included her constant rivalry with Rosie, her converting to Christianity and her lesbian relationships with both Sian Powers (Sacha Parkinson) and Maddie Heath (Amy James-Kelly).

Vincent returned as Sophie on-screen on 6 February 2017, along with sister Rosie, after actress Flanagan agreed to reprise her role back in October 2016.

[2] Vincent left the show in 2019 when she went on maternity leave, with Sophie's final scenes airing in October of that year.

Sean Tully (Antony Cotton) tells Sophie he saw her twin at the Manchester Gay Pride event.

Sophie is devastated to learn that Kevin is the father of Molly Dobbs's (Vicky Binns) baby son, Jack, following an affair that they had.

Believing that their relationship is over, Sophie becomes depressed and starts drinking cider on the street, refusing Sunita Alahan (Shobna Gulati)'s offers to talk.

Although the Pastor attempts to reason with her and ask her to come back to the choir, Sophie falls from the roof and is sent immediately to hospital.

Feeling guilty and taking Sunita's advice, Sophie proposes to Sian when she comes home from holiday early.

Sally and Kevin were both distraught when they find out that Ryan was involved in the accident, but Sophie defends his actions and makes them promise not to say anything to the police.

Sophie discovers Faye Windass (Ellie Leach) in pain in the flat above Dev Alahan's (Jimmi Harkishin) shop.

Sophie soon became suspicious of Kevin's new girlfriend, Jenny Bradley's (Sally Ann Matthews) growing attachment to her brother Jack.

Sophie and Kevin learn about Jenny's son, Tom, who died a few years prior and was the same age as Jack.

Rosie and Sophie are arrested after a white powder is discovered in one of their bags, but are released without charge as they find out it is only sweetener.

They meet Leah Buckley (Molly McGlynn) and confront her, however, she denies being the troll, but her stepmother is to blame and will get her to stop.

Following their break up, Sophie becomes close to Kate's brother Aidan Connor (Shayne Ward) and the pair bond due to their similar experiences.

When Zeedan Nazir (Qasim Akhtar) leaves the street to go to London he makes Sophie the manager of Speed Daal.

Ashleigh Middleton played Sophie from her birth up until March 1997 when Emma Woodward, who was just three years old at the time, took over the role.

[3] The show's bosses ran auditions upon the announcement which resulted in her being replaced with Brooke Vincent, a patron of the Manchester Kids charity.

[5] Coronation Street told the Daily Star that: "Brooke is an amazing actress and the introduction of two characters her own age will give the writers free rein to come up with some fantastic plots for her.

"[6] ITV publicity describes Sophie as a girl who is determined to live her life her own way after being neglected by her parents in favour of elder sister Rosie.

Although for the first five years of her life, Sophie's parents are very much in love, Kevin's affair with Natalie Horrocks (Denise Welch) changes everything.

With Sally struggling to bring up her girls on her own, she makes bad relationship decisions – most notably when she goes out with psychopathic Greg Kelly (Stephen Billington) who kidnaps Sophie.

However, soon thereafter Sophie overheard her parents arguing about Sally's affair with her boss, Ian Davenport (Philip Bretherton), whose daughter Gemma is friends with Rosie.

In 2009, Sophie reveals to a stunned Sally and Kevin and a happy Ben Richardson (Lucien Laviscount), that she is adopting Christian values, and that she would be wearing a purity necklace.

[9] During the storyline which saw Sophie's views change on life by turning to religion and taking a vow of chastity, Vincent praised the soap's producers for using the new plot to challenge stereotypes about religious people.

We all have a stereotypical view of a Christian, but Lucien Laviscount, who plays Sophie's boyfriend Ben, is quite hot, and you don't really think of religious people like that, so maybe it'll make religion cool.

[16] Grace Dent of The Guardian described Sophie's early rebellion phase as the best storyline of Coronation Street in 2005 and even said that she was 'chaving it up' with her friend Nicolette.

She also said of the character "She has transformed virtually overnight from a small, cheeky scamp into a Kappa-tracksuited, crop-topped, top-knotted, gum-chomping gobby nightmare.

[20] In scenes shown in 2005, Sophie referred to herself as a chav, a slang term in England (see Charver for Northern England or ned for Scotland) for a person whose lifestyle, branded casual clothing, speech and/or mannerisms are perceived to be common, proletarian and vulgar.

Due to this affiliation, the character is named and quoted in the 2006 book The Chav Guide to Life by Lee Bok.