CORRIE BLIMEY! I’m A Celeb’s Alan Halsall’s Coronation Street future revealed
The star has appeared on the cobbles for 26 years as mechanic Tyrone Dobbs
I’M A Celeb’s Alan Halsall’s Coronation Street future has been revealed after bosses offered him a new deal before he went into the jungle.
The actor – who plays Tyrone Dobbs in the ITV soap – is currently wowing audiences in the jungle down under has pledged his future to the soap.
I’m A Celeb star Alan Halsall has signed a new Coronation Street deal Credit: Rex
The actor plays Tyrone Dobbs in the ITV soap Credit: ITV
He will return to one fewer family member as on-screen grandmother Dame Maureen Lipman steps away from her full-time role Credit: ITV
He has put pen to paper on a new contract that will take him to the end of 2025 on the soap.
A source said: “Alan is really loved on Corrie and bosses wanted him to know h had their full support.
“The jungle is going to open a lot of doors for him but they wanted to make sure he knows how important a part of the cobbles he is.
“Viewers will be seeing a lot more of him over the next year.”
Alan’s won a legion of new fans in the ITV reality show after opening up about his relationship with his daughter Sienna and behind the scenes life on the cobbles.
Meanwhile his return to the Street will be a different one with his on-screen grandmother Dame Maureen Lipman leaving her full-time role on the show.
The star, 78, is taking a step back from her role as Evelyn Plummer to “enjoy life” with new fianceee David Turner, 78.
She exclusively told The Sun: “I’ll be absent for a while, and then coming back. I’m not going to die but I’ll be in and out of it because I want to have a bit of a life.
“David and I are thinking of having a bit of a gap year.”
And she’s got her eye on new roles, adding: “I’m waiting to see what’s out there once I’m out there.
“There’s got to be something that Lesley Manville and Brenda Blethyn and Harriet Walters don’t play that I could do.”
Coronation Street has been contacted for comment.
