Posted on 10/09/2009 2:35:43 PM PDT by 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.'
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Congrats to her.
I’m impressed.
Forgot to bend those knees.
I'd hit it only when on mescaline. | I'd hit it night and day. |
Whatever Amy Winehouse is on, I think Emily Corrie has found the antidote.
Good job Emily!
I’m happy the girl found her niche, but isn’t becoming a sailor a pretty big step down? Particularly for a girl?
I like hearing about actresses giving up the theatre in favor of marriage and a family.
Yeah,she is to be commended.
Sure not the first to fall out while standing at attention
That trick works too
Speak English to me, Tony. I thought this country spawned the f*****g language, and so far nobody seems to speak it.
Or as Kipling said, “In England all men spoke one tongue, speciously like American to the ear, but on cross-examination unintelligible.”
Passing out is what the Brit refer to as graduation from Basic Training. Check out you tube, Pass Out Parade.
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!
She did well!
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.
Nice to see a "Corrie" with a brain in her head
>>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).
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