Coronation Street legend Bruce Jones breaks silence as Les Battersby killed off

Coronation Street prima Bruce Jones has addressed his quality being killed disconnected and claimed fans volition beryllium near gutted arsenic bosses 'ignored nationalist demand' to support his character

Coronation Street prima Bruce Jones' quality Les Battersby has been killed disconnected - and he's not blessed astir it.

The TV star, 71, played the larger than beingness quality from 1997 done to 2007. But helium was told Les was being killed disconnected implicit email. Bruce near amusement bosses reeling with choler successful 2007, aft an undercover newsman filmed him insulting fans and exposing concealed crippled lines of the ITV show, during a boozy nighttime retired connected the tiles.

And it took nary clip astatine each for bosses to suspend him for his faux pas - and helium ne'er returned to the amusement again. But now, aft learning that his quality was being killed off, the histrion has deed retired and said fans privation him to instrumentality to the amusement but bosses are ignoring the demand.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, helium said: "[Show bosses] already emailed maine a implicit a fortnight agone to archer maine what was happening. I really thought, good fine, I played him for 10 years. It gives maine closure. Maybe it volition halt radical asking maine each the clip erstwhile I'm going back, if I'm going back."

He added: "People privation maine back, but it'll halt each that, successful buying centres, wherever I go. I'm pleased it's happening but I'm besides bittersweet astir losing a quality I played for 10 years. I'm grateful to the thoroughfare for that." He past went connected to say: "I went retired the different time and radical asked 4 times that day, 'when are you coming back? The thoroughfare is dead.'"

When asked if helium held immoderate resentment towards amusement bosses implicit their decision, helium replied: "No, nary whatsoever. They gave maine 10 years and I invented a large quality and it became a large deed with everyone. I privation them each the luck successful the world. I felt relieved, past I felt sadness, past I thought, 'well, wherever would helium go?' "

He added: "If helium went back, wherever would helium go? How would helium get back, what would helium do? Where would the storylines instrumentality him? I don't deliberation they could truly bash that overmuch with him, which is simply a shame." Speaking astir instrumentality absorption to quality of his character's death, Bruce was speedy to adhd that immoderate volition spot it arsenic a earthy improvement of the show, portion others volition beryllium "upset." He besides believes that immoderate people, who are dice hard fans of his character, volition endanger to boycott the show.

He said: "I'm conscionable waiting for the absorption erstwhile it breaks, erstwhile I spell buying oregon to shot with my mates. It'll beryllium a bittersweet clip for everyone. I don't ticker it. You get told, 'I don't ticker it immoderate more, we could bash with you going backmost in'. But I'm not going back. He was a precise fashionable person, Les. I can't hold to spot what the absorption I get, I can't hold to spot what absorption Coronation Street gets."

He continued: "I wouldn't caput betting they get a large absorption to it, but that's the extremity of Les. I had a large clip playing him. I'm going to determination connected and we'll spot what happens." Bruce claims helium nary longer watches the amusement arsenic helium prefers to walk his clip watching "good documentaries" but besides prefers to read.

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