They're the strumpets you love to hate.
\r\nThe soap tart is an integral part of any of our fave telly shows.
\r\nRosie Webster is the latest in a long line of hell-raising ladies in the soapy world...
\r\nShe's already rocked Coronation Street with her elicit affair with teacher John Stape.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Helen-Flanagan-0708-6.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Helen Flanagan"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Men should try to avoid looking into this woman's eyes - Carla Connor worked her charms over Liam and almost split him and Maria up.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Alison-King-0004.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Alison King 00.04"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Don't be fooled by her lovely face, Rita Sullivan has been quite the heartbreaker in Weatherfield over the years.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Barbara-Knox-0093.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Barbara Knox 00.93"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Does Liz McDonald know the meaning of tasteful dressing?
\r\nWe think not.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Bev-Callard-1107.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Bev Callard 11.07"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Try this one on for size - Frankie Baldwin had an affair with her stepson, Jamie...<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Debra-Stephenson-Rob-James-Collier-0006.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Debra Stephenson Rob James Collier 00.06"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Speak of the Devil - he also had a dalliance with ex-prostitute Leanne Battersby.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Jane-Danson-Rupert-Hill-0004.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Jane Danson Rupert Hill 00.04"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Amy Winehouse could have modelled herself on beehived chain-smoking Bet Lynch.
\r\nHer flirty manner won her a heart or 10.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Julie-Goodyear-0000.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Julie Goodyear 00.00"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Tanya Pooley will always be remembered as the evil temptress who stole Des Barnes from Raquel.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Eva-Pope-0094.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Eva Pope 00.94"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Some mothers do have 'em, eh Deidre?
\r\nShe's had a lot to deal with from Tracey Barlow - the most mind-blowing being Trace seducing her ex before bashing him round the head with a statue and killing him.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Kate-Ford-0006.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Kate Ford 00.06"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
We get the feeling Kelly \"Legs\" Crabtree might drop her knickers at any time... we're only talking about the ones she makes in the factory where she works, of course.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Tupele-Dorgu-0905.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Tupele Dorgu 09.05"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Maxine Peacock was prone to an affair, until tricky Dicky came along and bludgeoned her to death.
\r\nShe was a sweetie but her dressing often left us dismayed - take exhibit A for example.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Tracy-Shaw-0096.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Tracy Shaw 00.96"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
The infamous Elsie Tanner was a feisty woman with a sassy 'tude.
\r\nShe wasn't someone you'd mess with and didn't take any nonsense off anyone... perhaps that's why she made her way through four marriages.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Pat-Phoenix-0074.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Pat Phoenix 00.74"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Riiiiicccccckkkkkyyyy is the name we're used to her shouting but believe us there have been plenty of other chaps floating around EastEnders' Bianca Jackson.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Patsy-Palmer-0708.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Patsy Palmer 07.08"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Roxy Mitchell goes through the men thick and fast - Jase, Sean... as well as betraying her sis Ronnie by sleeping with her boyf, Jack Branning. Risky.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Rita-Simons-0708.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Rita Simons 07.08"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
How could anyone forget what Stacey Slater got up to - bedding her boyf's dad got her into hot water and no mistake.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Lacey-Turner-0708.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Lacey Turner 07.08"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Cindy Beale was a selfish rotter through and through.
\r\nShe just couldn't settle down and be happy with Ian Beale - in the end she even hired a hit man to bump him off.
\r\nWe know he's irritating, but this is a little extreme.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Adam-Woodyatt-and-Michelle-Collins-1993.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Adam Woodyatt and Michelle Collins 1993"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Janine Evans is a right piece of work - she's led one hell of a life.
\r\nFrom trying to seduce her surrogate father to sleeping with her drug dealer to prostitution, to blackmail and finally pushing her new hubby (Barry) down a cliffside, she's not exactly what we'd call a nice girl.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Charlie-Brooks-0903.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Charlie Brooks 09.03"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Don't be fooled by Dawn Swann's sweet face - this lady has got a sharp edge to her tongue.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Kara-Tointon-0708.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Kara Tointon 07.08"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Tart with a heart Kat Slater is just your out and out good time girl.
\r\nAlthough she calmed when she met Alfie Moon, this lady liked nothing more than binge drinking and putting some notches on her bedpost.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Jessie-Wallace-1005.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Jessie Wallace 10.05"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Pat Evans and her earrings are the stuff of Walford legend.
\r\nThese days she's more into giving advice - but she's had a rough life and made many mistakes in her past.
\r\nLuckily, Pat's a survivor.
Gritty.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Pam-St-Clement-0708.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Pam St Clement 07.08"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Princess Sharon Rickman (nee Watts) creates drama wherever she goes.
\r\nThe best bout of it being the love triangle between her, then-hubby Grant and his bro, Phil Mitchell.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Ross-Kemp-Letitia-Dean-0090.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Ross Kemp Letitia Dean 00.90"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
... Her mum Angie Watts taught her daughter well and was known for her cheeky banter and tight togs too.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Anita-Dobson-0087.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Anita Dobson 00.87"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Brookside's Emily Shadwick was a nasty piece of work - and let's just say she knew how to use her assets.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Jennifer-Ellison-1101.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Jennifer Ellison 11.01"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Jacqui Farnham was a blonde bombshell on the Brookie cul de sac.
\r\nShe was so racy that the soap got their wrist slapped by the telly authorities for a scene that was \"too explicit and sexually charged\" between her and hubby Max Farnham.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Alexandra-Fletcher-0096.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Alexandra Fletcher 00.96"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
In Emmerdale's Charity Tate's short life she's been through a teenage pregnancy, fallen into prostitution and had an affair with her husband's sister. And you thought your life was complicated.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Emma-Atkins-0000.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Emma Atkins 00.00"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Katie Sugden slept with her fiance's brother the night before her wedding - but still went ahead with the nuptials. Drama.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Sammy-Winward-0000.jpg","width":385,"height":420,"alt":"Sammy Winward 00.00"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Trouble-making Chastity Dingle is one to manipulate with her buxom charm but this lass has a soft spot for her clan.
\r\nShe even arrived in Emmerdale in a blaze of strippergram nun glory.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Lucy-Pargeter-0000.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Lucy Pargeter 00.00"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Kathy Glover is remembered as being one of the most married characters in soap and had a reputation for having the kiss of death on her men.
\r\nAfter one husband shot himself by accident and her third died in a house fire, this lady later made a move to Australia - watch out Summer Bay men is all we can say.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Malandra-Burrows-0000.jpg","width":385,"height":420,"alt":"Malandra Burrows 00.00"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Bernice Thomas may have married the vicar, Ashley, but that didn't stop her from getting bored.
\r\nShe ended up hopping into bed with the chef, Carlos.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Samantha-Giles-John-Middleton-0000.jpg","width":385,"height":420,"alt":"Samantha Giles John Middleton 00.00"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Mercedes McQueen's general attire is the same size as a six-year-olds.
\r\nThis girl is incapable of covering up and along with her love of a good flirting sesh (and the rest) it proves an explosive combo when it comes to her sexual escapades.<\/p>","url":"2008/6/11/Jennifer-Metcalfe-0608.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Jennifer Metcalfe 06.08"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Oh Mandy, you came and you gave without taking...
\r\nWell that's not strictly true.
\r\nIn fact there were occasions that young Mandy gave and received in the loos in The Loft.
\r\nNow she's back in Hollyoaks she's far more conservative and boring - boo.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Sarah-Dunn-01.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Sarah Dunn 01"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Jude Cunningham really took Lycra and lace to a whole other level in Chester.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Davinia-Murphy-1997.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Davinia Murphy 1997"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Geri Hudson brought Wag living alive in Hollyoaks through her relationship with her footy beau - who, BTW, was an absolute rotter.
\r\nShe got her own back by marrying him and bleeding him dry - she wanted revenge and got it.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Joanna-Taylor-01.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Joanna Taylor 01"},{"captionHeading":"Soap Tarts","caption":"
Ruth Osbourne only had eyes for Kurt at first.
\r\nBut she made it onto our list for her high ponytails and sleeping with a 16-year-old - even though it was by accident.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/29/Terri-Dwyer-and-Jeremy-Edwards-1995.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Terri Dwyer and Jeremy Edwards 1995"}];