ON TV she may just have discovered her stepfather is "Norman Bates with a briefcase", dashing all hopes of a happy family move to a posh new home - but in real life actress Tina O'Brien is living love's young dream.

For the Coronation Street star, who plays Sarah-Louise Platt, is planning to set up a more permanent base with her on and off-screen boyfriend, Bruno Langley, aka Todd Grimshaw.

The couple, who have been an item for almost a year, have in recent months been sharing a terraced house in Salford with Tina's tortoiseshell cat Miffy.

But, at the tender age of 19, it seems the pair's soap success can already buy them the luxury things in life, because the coupe have been spotted leaving a decidedly posh estate agent's in the city centre.

"They were coming out of one of the agencies just off Deansgate clutching some very glossy-looking brochures," says a spy. "

They looked very sweet - very happy and loved-up. Maybe a more permanent domestic set-up could be on the cards in one of those upmarket city centre pads?"