Coronation Street star Charlie Lawson burns final bridges with soap as he slams bosses in autobiography

CHARLIE Lawson appears to person burned his last bridges with Coronation Street aft slamming bosses successful his caller autobiography.

The erstwhile soap star played the iconic Jim McDonald connected and disconnected since 1989, but near for bully successful 2018.

Charlie antecedently ripped into Coronation Street successful an exclusive chat with The Sun, saying however its “extremely average” acting is turning disconnected viewers.

But present successful his caller autobiography titled That's Life, So It Is, the 65-year-old recounts however helium was "desperate to leave" the cobbles successful 1999.

Charlie told however helium disliked 1 erstwhile shaper truthful overmuch helium had "neither respect oregon thing for the man".

He decided to enactment aft being convinced by his family, but Charlie said: "I was cajoled into different declaration with this batch of amateurs astatine GTV, but adjacent worse, I had to swallow my pridefulness and stamp connected my principles."

He continued by revealing helium "hated each moment" of playing Jim McDonald successful the second years and held backmost storming into erstwhile shaper Jane Macnaught's bureau and quitting the street.

Charlie explained: "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'soffice, our Christmas producer, and telling her to shove it up their a***s.

"The biggest mistake was that I did not instrumentality this action."

Charlie revealed soon afterwards helium was called to the bosses bureau and fixed quality his declaration would beryllium renewed for conscionable 1 year, earlier he'd beryllium written retired of Corrie.

He said: "I was profoundly wounded and angry. 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.

"That aged operation of Michael Le Vell's, for whom I had large respect and admiration, 'don't instrumentality a wage chopped for anyone', not lone reared its disfigured head, but proceeded to battle and batter me."

With imminent bankruptcy, Charlie agreed to enactment connected arsenic Jim for 1 much twelvemonth but said helium voiced his concerns connected the "state of the character" and the absorption helium was going.

Charlie was past written retired of the ITV soap arsenic his quality served a situation condemnation for the manslaughter of a cause dealer.