Coronation Street actor Jack P Shepherd, best known as David Platt in the soap, and co-star Ben Price, who plays Nick Tilsley, were left fuming over the actions of a fellow cast member
Coronation Street stars Jack P Shepherd and Ben Price have exposed some behind the scenes drama on the Cobbles. David Platt star Jack was keen to track down the culprit, after noticing things had been going missing on set.
The soap actors discussed the situation on their podcast with former Corrie co-star Colson Smith, who played Craig Tinker. During the latest episode of the On The Sofa podcast, Ben revealed that although the stars hadn’t received any cake to celebrate Coronation Street’s 65th anniversary, the cast had been gifted with an advent calendar filled with treats.
However, Ben revealed that the well-intentioned festive present had turned “nasty”, as someone in the cast had been taking more chocolates for themselves.
The Nick Tilsley actor shared: “It’s got nasty, and I think we have to talk about it, the advent calendar at work. It’s s****y, it is s****y! Someone gave us one…”
Jack interjected to explain that co-star James Cartwright, who plays Theo Silverton, had kindly presented his Corrie colleagues with a Ferrero Rocher advent calendar.
The star continued: “He brought in loads of calendars for every department – costume got one, makeup got one, cast got one, so on, so on, so on. And he’s gone on holiday now for Christmas.”
“He’s off, he’s left it, he said, ‘open the doors in numerical order’, as an advent calendar is,” Ben added.
Jack then sheepishly admitted: “Well, I started the jump, I started the jump, but let me explain…” Colson quizzed his pal: “Oh! Are you thinking weekends?”
“Exactly that, Colson. So I was in on the Friday, me and Ben were in late on Thursday,” Jack recalled, before sharing that he and Ben had decided to tuck into the chocolates in advance, as none of their colleagues would have been there to open the advent calendar over the weekend.
However, the plan backfired when co-star Joe Tuttine, who portrays Tim Metfalfe, excitedly arrived on set on Monday morning hoping to tuck into Friday, Saturday and Sunday’s chocolates, only to find they had already been eaten.
Jack went on to say that the issue had only gotten worse, as he spotted that even more chocolates had gone missing from forthcoming dates in the calendar once he returned to work.
He said: “So, I started the jump, but today, someone has just taken the p***,” leading Colson to ask if Jack had discovered “any culprits”.
Jack admitted he had initially accused his co-star, Steve McDonald actor Simon Gregson, of pinching the chocolates, adding: “No, I asked. I thought it was Si Gregson, he said no, but he said he knows who it is. And I said, ‘boy or girl?’ and he said, ‘I’m not saying’.”
Ben mischievously theorised that the chocolate thief would be “someone who would rob your house”, quipping: “If they’re prepared to do that, they’re prepared to do really nasty things!”
