Friday, 17 June 2016

Daniel Brocklebank: 'I've had two people ask me to marry them'

Daniel Brocklebank, who plays Coronation Street's Billy the Vicar, is interviewed in TV Times magazine.  He says that some fans really believe he's a vicar in real life.  I can't understand, for the life of me, how fans get actors and characters mixed up like this, but it does happen, I understand.

Daniel says: "A couple of people have called me 'Father' when I've been out, which is a bit odd, and I've had two people ask me to marry them. I should get a licence - I could rake it in! Generally people are lovely but one woman came up to me in a supermarket and told me I was going to hell for playing a gay vicar.  She was wearing a floor-length brown corduroy skirt and I could see the venom in her eyes.  I just said: "Darling, all my sins combined are nothing compared to those of your skirt!"

We're big fans of Daniel and Billy, here on the Coronation Street Blog

Read our blogger Emma's appreciation of Billy here.

And our blogger Ruth's appreciation of Billy here.

Daniel says his mum is a huge fan of Coronation Street and has told him that he's never to leave.
We say Amen to that.


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