Helen Flanagan sends fans wild as she shares a kiss with Hollyoaks star Emma Rigby

HELEN Flanagan has driven fans chaotic arsenic she shared a steamy buss with Hollyoaks prima Emma Rigby.

The Coronation Street star, 34, enjoyed a nighttime retired with bully pal Emma, 35, arsenic they celebrated her day connected Thursday.

Helen looked glamourous successful a achromatic skintight formal with sheer sleeves, with her blonde hair successful escaped waves.

Emma, who reprised her relation arsenic Hannah Ashworth connected Hollyoaks past twelvemonth earlier quitting the amusement this summer, looked stunning successful a ruched off-the-shoulder mini frock.

The brace showed their emotion for each different by puckering up for a affable smooch successful the toilets connected their nighttime out.

Helen besides took to societal media to stock a drawstring of throwback snaps from implicit the years with her pal.

In 1 photo, the duo looked unrecognisable portion connected a nighttime out, with Helen showcasing darker tresses and a beige wrapper dress.

In June, The Sun exclusively revealed that histrion Emma had resigned from the Channel 4 soap less than a twelvemonth aft her precocious illustration return.

She is said to person walked distant implicit changes to the show.

Emma primitively starred arsenic Hannah betwixt 2005 until 2010 and had immense storylines similar her eating upset and doomed narration with John Paul McQueen.

This clip Hannah has been seen to beryllium moving arsenic a enactment idiosyncratic to scam men of their money.

When she archetypal returned successful November, 13 years aft primitively quitting successful 2010, Hollyoaks aired 5 nights a week connected Channel 4 and E4.

But since past fund cuts astatine the corp has seen the occurrence bid slashed to conscionable 3 20 infinitesimal episodes per week and a wide cull of formed and crew.

It volition adjacent present diagnostic a melodramatic year-long clip leap successful September to explicate the immense changes to the formed and relaunch the amusement arsenic a three-nights a week soap.

However those changes - arsenic good arsenic storyline changes - mean that Emma has decided to permission the amusement again.

A root said: “It conscionable wasn’t moving retired for Emma. 

“She agreed a semipermanent instrumentality with definite expectations but that each changed. She’s a nonrecreational done and done but the changes were excessively overmuch truthful she decided to locomotion away.”

EMMA'S EXIT

Emma’s archetypal instrumentality was for a abbreviated stint but past she returned successful March for a much-heralded imperishable return.

An insider added: “There’s a interest different precocious illustration formed members whitethorn spot this arsenic an accidental to permission the show.

“While they’re each precise supportive of the soap, the reduced fund and seeing friends and colleagues permission aft truthful galore years takes its toll. 

“If much spell willingly past it whitethorn beryllium that the penning is precise overmuch connected the partition for the show. It volition beryllium hard to retrieve from further blows.”