Charles Lawson, the actor who plays Jim McDonald in Coronation Street, was on BBC Breakfast this morning. Charles recently suffered a mini-stroke, live on stage while playing Ian Rankin's Rebus, and although he is well now, he wanted to speak out about the incident to help raise awareness of these attacks. As someone who has gone through a mini-stroke (or TIA) and had to spend time in hospital, I know how scary these things are.
Anyway, as he was being interviewed, Charles also explained a little behind-the-scenes news on the Liz, Jim and Hannah storyline. Personally, I think it is one of the worst storylines Coronation Street has done in many years. What Charles said about the storyline goes a little way to explaining why the storyline didn't sit well on the screen - and with fans.
He said: "For those of you who thought it was completely nonsense and what have you, they asked me to come back for a year and I couldn't because I had committed to do Rebus. If they'd asked me earlier, when they'd got the storyline together, it might have been a different story. So a storyline that was that (he indicates 'big' with his hands) went to that (he indicates 'small') and consequently it annoyed some people."
You can say that again.
You can watch the interview here on the BBC iPlayer.
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