90s Coronation Street legend ‘hurt and angry’ to be axed and face bankruptcy

Coronation Street fable Charles Lawson has slammed a fig of the ITV soap’s erstwhile bosses successful his caller autobiography.

The Northern Irish actor, 65, played Jim McDonald regularly for 11 years from 1989, earlier returning intermittently for impermanent stints betwixt 2003 and 2018.

Jim was the hubby of the iconic Liz (Beverley Callard), and begetter to their sons Steve (Simon Gregson) and Andy (Nicholas Cochrane).

The brace besides had a daughter, Katie, who died soon aft she was born.

Now, successful his caller autobiography That’s Life, So It Is, Charles has criticised his clip connected the long-running soap and spoke of his desperation to permission successful 1999.

Speaking of 1 erstwhile producer, helium said that helium had ‘neither respect oregon thing for the man.’

‘I was cajoled into different declaration with this batch of amateurs astatine GTV (Granada Television), but adjacent worse, I had to swallow my pridefulness and stamp connected my principles’ helium said.

‘For months now, I person been going done the motions of turning up and doing Jim McDonald, and hating each infinitesimal of it and judge it oregon judge it not, connected much than 1 occasions earnestly considering taking the assistance to the 4th floor, walking into Jane Macnaught’s (producer from 1999-2002) office, and telling her to shove it up their a***s.’

He continued by saying this was his ‘biggest mistake.’

Charles adds that helium ‘hated each moment’ of playing the beloved character, and that helium was shocked erstwhile Macnaught extended his declaration by different twelvemonth to springiness him a capable exit story.

‘I was profoundly wounded and angry’ helium said.

‘After a ten-year committedness of hard work, and what I considered to beryllium a invaluable contribution, I was to beryllium offered what amounted to a fourteen-thousand-pound wage cut, which would escalate, by mode of besides losing my per diem, to astir 20 thousand.’

He besides notes that Kevin Webster prima Michael Le Vell had encouraged him not to instrumentality a wage cut, particularly since helium was connected the brink of bankruptcy astatine the time.

Jim was written retired erstwhile helium was charged with the manslaughter of gangster and cause trader Jez Quigley (Lee Boardman).

His latest communicative successful 2018 saw him instrumentality with a immense daze for Liz – Katie was inactive alive.

In a horrifying twist, it aboriginal transpired that the pistillate was actually his overmuch younger girlfriend, and the brace had concocted the communicative to scam his household retired of cash.

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