Katie McGlynn looks stunning at Manchester ball ahead of personal challenge in memory of Corrie character

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Katie McGlynn wowed in white as she arrived at The Sapphire Ball at The Hilton Manchester. The former Coronation Street and Hollyoaks star dazzled as she channeled Hollywood glamour in her gorgeous thigh-split dress with matching white heels.

The Rochdale actress, sporting her new bobbed blonde hairstyle, added to her Marilyn Monroe-esque glamour with a Vivienne Westwood choker necklace at the Deansgate hotel.

Her best friend Lee Bennett coordinated with a Westwood lapel pin accessorising his dapper black suit. Katie was also delighted to be reunited with her former Hollyoaks co-star Gabriel Clark, who played her on-screen boyfriend Ollie Morgan in the Channel Four soap. "Reunited at last" wrote Katie as she shared a snap of the pair beaming for the camera on her Instagram Stories, and Gabriel looked unrecognisable with a new blonde hairdo at the annual event raising money for Manchester charities. READ MORE: Brilliant moment Bez dances down the aisle at his wedding Katie played troublemaker conspiracy theorist Becky Quentin in Hollyoaks after winning hearts and moving viewers to tears as tragic Sinead Osbourne in Corrie.

Taking to Instagram to mark her exit in March she wrote: "Becky Quentin, over and out! @HollyoaksOfficial. "It’s been an absolute pleasure playing Becky and getting my teeth into something so different and gritty! "As an actor, to be able to portray someone that has so much likeness to extremely current global issues from conspiracy theories to anti-vaxxers, coronavirus and sinophobia… I really hope the storyline has helped raise some important issues and helps people see how easy it is for someone to be sucked into this whole world of fake news and conspiracy!" She added: "Thank you to the entire cast