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Shameless star reveals controversial show filmed in people’s real ‘dirty’ houses filled with toenail clippings and grime
FORMER Shameless actress Sally Carman has revealed the drama filmed in people’s real homes filled with dirt and toenail clippings.
The actress appeared as Kelly Maguire on the show between 2005 and 2013 but has admitted the Channel 4 programme used to pay people to allow them to film in their homes.
Sally admitted bosses wanted the show to be authentic as possible and so sought out run-down and low-income housing for scenes used in the controversial Manchester-based Channel 4 drama.
However, speaking to The Sun at the TV Choice Awards, she confessed some of the houses were filthy and left her horrified whilst on-set.
Sally said: “People in real-life actually live like we portrayed in Shameless.
“A lot of the time when we were filming, we were in real people’s houses.
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“I remember doing one scene and this man’s house, God bless him, was just disgusting.
“I had to be a bed scene and I made sure [the crew] brought all their own bedding.
“In between takes, I just so happened to glance down the side of the bed and I’m like, ‘what is that’?
“There was a whole, huge pile of toenails. Actual toenail clippings.
“It was just absolutely disgusting.
“There’s absolutely no training for stuff like that.”
Sally appeared in the programme for eight years but admitted it needed to come to an end when it did.
She said: “It needed to die when it died – it got very silly in the end.
“But it will probably come back at some point.”
She further added if there was to be a revival she would “never say never” to making a comeback.
Since leaving the show, Sally joined the cast of Coronation Street as Abi Franklin, making her debut in 2017.
Sally admitted after Shameless came to an end in 2013, she was offered the chance to star in a number of reality TV shows but turned them all down.