Former soap star Emily Corrie swaps acting for the Royal Navy after she passes out as a Wren

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 10th October 2009 | Simon Cable

[naturalman1975]

Ten years ago she was one of the hottest properties in British acting after making her screen debut opposite Ray Winstone.

Later success inspired the band McFly to write a song about her and in 2006 she made the big move to Hollywood

But now Emily Corrie has decided that her future lies on the ocean wave: as a Royal Navy sailor.

Yesterday she passed out on her final parade after completing training on HMS Raleigh in Cornwall.

Miss Corrie, best known as a rebellious teenager in the Channel 4 drama As If, says she made the switch because she was disillusioned with acting.

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'I've always lacked a bit of self discipline and was prepared to have that enforced.The training has been great. It's been very challenging, particularly physically.'

[naturalman1975]

[fieldmarshaldj]

Congrats to her.

[marron]

I’m impressed.

[antiRepublicrat]

Forgot to bend those knees.

[Yossarian]

I'd hit it only when on mescaline.

I'd hit it night and day.

[Yossarian]

Whatever Amy Winehouse is on, I think Emily Corrie has found the antidote.

Good job Emily!

[BertWheeler]

I’m happy the girl found her niche, but isn’t becoming a sailor a pretty big step down? Particularly for a girl?

[BertWheeler]

I like hearing about actresses giving up the theatre in favor of marriage and a family.

[Harold Shea]

Yeah,she is to be commended.

Sure not the first to fall out while standing at attention

That trick works too

[OgreTheGreat]

I think they meant she graduated not "pass out". Whenever I hear some English phrases from the UK it reminds me of my trip there or the quote from Snatch when Denis Farina goes to London and says:

Speak English to me, Tony. I thought this country spawned the f*****g language, and so far nobody seems to speak it.

[Tupelo]

Congratulations to the young Wren. I love that the Brits still call their female sailors Wrens. I think the we lost something here when we stopped calling our women military Waves, Wafs and Wacs. To me it just sounds a little more civilized.
One thing though, them Brits need to learn English, I thought, “she passes out as a Wren,” meant she had passed out er fainted.
Again congratulations to Emily Corrie. You are to be admired.

[AnAmericanMother]

Or as Kipling said, “In England all men spoke one tongue, speciously like American to the ear, but on cross-examination unintelligible.”

[mware]

Passing out is what the Brit refer to as graduation from Basic Training. Check out you tube, Pass Out Parade.

[OgreTheGreat]

Indeed. I went from Germany to Paris to London on my last European adventure and the first problem I had understanding someone speaking English was in England when trying to check into my hotel. I literally had to ask her to repeat herself 3 times before I got the jest of what she was saying. Even then I wasn’t quite sure I got everything. In Glastonbury, I was trying to follow a local priest describing some history of the abbey and it was a major struggle. And I had just told my wife the evening before in Paris that it would be good when everyone speaks English. Ha!

[Robert A Cook PE]

She did well!

[naturalman1975]

Wrens isn’t official anymore (nor is Wrans, which was used in Australia), but it’s got too much history behind it to be abandoned completely.

[montag813]

"My Name is Emily Corrie"

Nice to see a "Corrie" with a brain in her head

[NTHockey]

>>Congratulations to the young Wren. I love that the Brits still call their female sailors Wrens. I think the we lost something here when we stopped calling our women military Waves, Wafs and Wacs. To me it just sounds a little more civilized.<<

At least, we still have WMs (more affectingly called BAMs).