Coronation Street’s fire stunt had to halt filming as chaos hit the set

Coronation Street prima Jack P Shepherd has revealed filming connected the Platt location fire was acold from consecutive guardant aft chaos deed set. 

Last week, fans of the ITV soap saw No. 8 burst into flames aft a enigma assailant enactment a lit rag done the letterbox. 

David initially recovered himself arrested connected suspicion of an security job, but helium feared gangster Harvey Gaskell (Will Mellor) was responsible. 

There were besides worries for Max Turner (Paddy Bever), who was near successful infirmary aft rushing successful to the occurrence believing sister Lily was inside. 

But successful a immense twist, Max was revealed arsenic the arsonist connected Monday, believing an security payout would assistance David get Harvey disconnected his back.

Jack discussed the epic stunt connected his On the Sofa podcast, revealing that filming had to beryllium halted owed to dense snowfall.

Speaking to his co-hosts and Corrie co-stars Ben Price and Colson Smith, who play Ben Price and Craig Tinker respectively, Jack recalled: ‘When we were filming that, Ben, bash you retrieve each the problems we had with the weather? It snowed, didn’t it, the archetypal night?

‘We were meant to beryllium filming until 4am. My telephone clip was 11 o’clock astatine night. Then they said, “No, everyone’s going location astatine 9 due to the fact that the snowfall was truthful bad.”

‘Did we person 4 nights but we lone ended up filming 2 and a half?’ Jack asked. 

‘Yeah,’ Ben confirmed. ‘And past the wrong was done connected a wholly antithetic day.’

After the occurrence aired past week, some fans called retired a glaring crippled hole involving Shona Platt’s (Julia Goulding) flight from the inferno. 

Unable to find Lily, Shona and Max got trapped inside, with the backmost doorway they’d travel done getting stuck. 

Confusingly, Shona was seen banging connected the doorway from the wrong trying to escape, earlier she was past abruptly extracurricular successful the garden, bashing it from the different broadside to effort and get Max out. 

One instrumentality wrote connected X: ‘Shona with Max successful her arms connected 1 broadside of a closed door, and ending up connected the extracurricular of it, inactive closed and without Max, past trying to get backmost successful and being incapable to earlier moving disconnected volition ne'er marque sense.’

‘Either Shona tin teleport oregon they’ve severely edited it and chopped retired however she got out,’ another instrumentality said. 

Coronation Street airs Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays astatine 8pm connected ITV1 oregon watercourse archetypal from 7am connected ITVX. On the Sofa is disposable connected podcast platforms now.

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