Coronation Street’s Bruce Jones breaks silence on ‘upset’ over Les Battersby death

Bruce Jones has opened up astir his absorption to the quality his Coronation Street quality volition beryllium killed off.

Over the weekend, Metro confirmed that atrocious quality astir the character, played for a decennary by Bruce, volition scope his daughters Leanne (Jane Danson) and Toyah (Georgia Taylor), aboriginal adjacent month.

Bruce, who is 71, was initially fto spell from the soap for off-set behaviour, and allegedly insulting fans and yet revealing plots.

His vocation has taken rather a antithetic way these days, arsenic helium present partakes successful nonrecreational wrestling.

But Corrie is ne'er acold distant from him, arsenic 1 of his astir notable opponents was chap 90s icon Steve Arnold, amended known arsenic Ashley Peacock.

The stars thrilled a 200-strong assemblage with a bout (which Bruce won) earlier grinning and hugging each other, evidently inactive friends decades on.

Bruce has present opened up astir his quality being killed disconnected successful the ITV soap, revealing helium was told astir this via an email.

‘[Show bosses] already emailed maine 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’, helium explained to the MailOnline.

‘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. I went retired the different time and radical asked 4 times that day, “when are you coming back? The thoroughfare is dead.”‘

The histrion went connected to corroborate that helium doesn’t consciousness immoderate animosity towards the soap, fixed the interaction his relation had connected his life.

‘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?” 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.’

Pondering implicit the audience’s absorption to Les’ upcoming death, Bruce added: ‘It volition beryllium truly unusual to spot however radical respond to it. I tin ideate immoderate radical being truly upset and annoyed, different radical volition be, “well you did your time, it was clip to go, we’ve inactive got you connected classic, truthful determination are memories of you there, truthful that’s fine”.’

‘I deliberation a batch of radical volition beryllium upset, a batch of radical volition be, “I’m not watching it again due to the fact that I ticker classical (the aged episodes).” 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.

‘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.’

Metro has contacted Coronation Street and Bruce Jones’ representative.

Recently, Bruce admitted that helium inactive has nightmares after helium was wrongly accused of being the Yorkshire Ripper.

He became a fishy during Peter Sutcliffe’s murdering spree successful the 70s aft discovering 1 of the bodies.

In 1981, Sutcliffe was recovered blameworthy of murdering 13 women and attempting to execution 7 others betwixt 1975 and 1980. Bruce recovered the assemblage of the 5th victim- 20-year-old Jean Jordan, astatine an allotment successful Manchester successful 1977. He had been moving determination with a person erstwhile the harrowing find was made.

Speaking successful the documentary The Dark Side Of Fame, the histrion said: ‘It really destroyed maine to larn that radical tin bash that to a quality being. 

‘I had nightmares similar you wouldn’t believe.’

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