Neighbours say rival groups of girls ‘pre-arranged’ fight outside Coronation Street star Tina O’Brien’s £1million home – after police were called over shocking brawl

Neighbours of Coronation Street star Tina O’Brien has told of their shock after the actress was attacked in a videoed street brawl outside her home.

They claim the star’s home has not been targeted by anti-social behaviour yobs in the past with some believing rival girls struck during a pre-arranged fight.

The 40-year-old actress was seen having her hair pulled and being punched during the fight last Friday outside her £1 million home in upmarket Bramhall, Greater Manchester.

Neighbour Derek Crookes, 71, said: ‘It was a real surprise when I saw the video. Tina’s lovely and there’s been no trouble here, certainly not girls or lads targeting her house.

‘It’s very quiet here, that’s one of the attractions of living here. We don’t have this sort of trouble such as fighting in the street.’ 

There is no suggestion Ms O’Brien had any role in organising the fight. 

Another neighbour said: ‘It’s shocking to see Tina scraping as there’s been no trouble with teenagers here in the past.

‘The rumour is that these girls are from a rougher part of Stockport. It must have been an organised fight.’

The Corrie actress is believed to have reported the incident in the cul-de-sac to Greater Manchester Police.

Mother-of-two Tina is believed to have left her home early this morning to film Coronation Street at ITV studios in Salford Quays.

Her husband Adam Crofts, 38, refused to talk about the street fight involving his wife.

Video of brawl, which took place at around 8pm on Friday, March 15, has been obtained by The Sun and shows the 5ft 1in actress caught up in the fist-fight.

At the start of the footage Tina, who was wearing a black and white striped top and pink jogging bottoms, can be seen trying to calm tensions between two female youths.

One can be heard saying: ‘You’ve touched my mum.’

Tina can be heard urging one of the girls to release their hold on the other, saying: ‘Let go of her…. stop. Let go of her, I just said stop. Let go of her.’

One of the girls then appears to kick out at the other, sparking a tussle between the actress and the teen.

The pair are seen wrestling with each other with Tina, who briefly gets the girl in a headlock, then seen getting her hair pulled by the taller youth and being punched, 

A girl with blonde hair then gets involved shouting ‘who the f*** do you [think you] actually are, touching my mum!’

This then sparks another wrestling match between the two teens, with the Coronation Street star caught in the middle. 

The footage then cuts out and when it restarts shows a melee involving the actress and three girls.

A source told The Sun that the actress, who has also appeared in Waterloo Road and Strictly Come Dancing, had been trying to ‘break things up’.

They said: ‘Watching her on Coronation Street, you wouldn’t think in a million years she’d get involved in something like this, especially in such a public place.’

They added that Tina, who has won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards twice, was ‘defending herself’.

‘Tina has been plagued by problems near her house and, on this occasion, came out to try to deal with it,’ the source said.

‘Some girls travelled to her road and were close to her house so she felt she was defending herself and her home.’

A spokesperson for the actress told The Sun: ‘Tina was the victim of an unprovoked incident outside her home which she has reported to the police.’

In addition to the mother-of-two contacting the police, a relative of one of the children is also believed to have got in touch with officers.

A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police said: ‘Officers are investigating reports of an assault in Stockport between 8pm and 9pm on 15 March.’

Tina lives in a quiet cul-de-sac with her husband Adam, daughter Scarlett, 15, and son Beau, eight.

Adam is a personal trainer, and the two have been married since 2018.

Tina was a regular on Corrie from 1999 to 2007 before leaving to pursue other projects, such as Waterloo Road. She returned to the Cobbles in 2015.

She met her now-ex Ryan Thomas during her first stint on Coronation Street when he played her on-screen husband Jason Grimshaw. The pair dated for six years until 2009.