Corrie fellas to tell tales from the Street on stage

Charlie Lawson and Nick Cochrane, who played Jim McDonald and Andy McDonald on Coronation Street, will be telling tales from Coronation Street next month.

Charlie and Nick will  take to the stage at Colne Muni, Albert Road in Lancashire on Thursday, November 15.

Together the actors are behind Tales from the Street, a look back at their time on The Street and their life since. Lawson’s other credits include the medical series Doctors, 80s comedy Bread and The Bill. 

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Ex-Corrie actors spill Street secrets

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Coronation Street’s Charlie Lawson (Jim McDonald) and Nick Cochrane (Andy McDonald) will be appearing at a special theatre event called Soap Star Secrets.

The ex-Corrie actors will talk candidly about their lives on and off the small screen. Packed with true life stories and behind the scenes anecdotes, question & answer section, guaranteed laughs and unexpected shocks, this one off evening will leave no soap stone un-turned.

The revelations will start in the Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage at 7.45pm on Saturday November 5.

Book your tickets and find out more here.

And if you go along, and you would like to do a review of the show afterwards, please do let us know.

Back to 1990 with the McDonald twins

'Time flies when you're having fun', at least that's what they say. It's been a bit of a McDonald-fest on Corrie this week, with Steve's wedding to Becky Granger spelling the return not only of Leggy Liz, but of Steve's twin Andy and dad Big Jim. Nuptials and bad wedding ensembles aside, time really has flown, since 2009 is the year that the McDonalds notch up twenty years on the show.

With the day to myself, I decided to flick through a book commemorating Corrie's 30th anniversary in 1990. Inside was a section about Steve and Andy McDonald, Corrie new boys and 'Bros lookalikes' (according to the writer at least). Alongside the conventional actor rundown, there's an interesting quote from Simon, who doesn't seem to consider Coronation Street as his job of choice: 'The job I'd like to get is an RAF technician, I was in the RAF cadets and flew a Chipmunk'. Ironic that twenty years and five weddings later, Steve McDonald is arguably Corrie's most popular male character.

Nick Cochrane on verge of bankruptcy

Steve McDonald's twin brother Andy was played by actor Nick Cochrane. Nick's poured his heart out to the Sunday People and confesses he's lost a small fortune on an ill-fated soaps magazine since he left Coronation Street.

You can read the full interview here.