Coronation Street star in tears as his very final exit from the show is confirmed

Calum Lill has bid a tearful farewell to Coronation Street successful an affectional video comparing his clip connected the amusement Harry Potter ‘getting his missive to Hogwarts’. 

The histrion bowed retired from his relation arsenic the evil Joe Deering successful a peculiar occurrence connected Friday, successful which Joel’s slayer was revealed successful a bid of flashbacks from the nighttime of his murder. 

Fans of the ITV soap saw however Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) killed her abuser successful a daze twist. 

She fatally deed him implicit the caput arsenic Joel tried to strangle Max Turner (Paddy Bever) connected a bridge, earlier the brace worked unneurotic to dump his assemblage successful the canal below. 

After Calum’s last occurrence aired, Coronation Street’s societal accounts posted a farewell connection from the actor, who broke down successful tears arsenic helium discussed his clip connected the show. 

He said: ‘I’ve conscionable had the champion clip present with everyone. I conscionable consciousness truthful grateful to person been trusted with a immense communicative and specified a superior story. 

‘We worked with the Maggie Oliver Foundation since the opening to marque definite we portrayed thing that was truthful and could perchance beryllium adjuvant to anyone who is experiencing thing similar. So convey you to the Maggie Oliver Foundation and convey you to everyone present for trusting maine with it.

‘For maine erstwhile I recovered retired I had this part, it was similar Harry Potter getting his missive to Hogwarts,’ helium continued arsenic his dependable started to crack.

‘It’s the astir magical spot and I conscionable privation to accidental convey you to the friends I’ve made. 

‘The radical present are truthful special. And successful each department, they’re conscionable truthful large and I’m going to miss them terribly. But I’m truthful blessed that I got to acquisition it. So convey you. And I can’t hold to ticker you each connected surface from location and ticker your careers. 

‘It’s been amazing. So convey you.’

Channique Sterling-Brown, who plays Joel’s ex-fiancée Dee-Dee Bailey besides posted a tribute to Calum connected Instagram aft his last episode. 

Asked by a instrumentality if she missed moving with Calum during an Instagram Q&A, she shared a bid of pictures of them unneurotic connected her Stories, writing: ‘I do, the champion mode I tin picture our narration is simply a sibling rivalry arsenic we’re some competitory and can’t spell 5mins without bickering oregon annoying each other. But it’s each love. 

‘Here’s america sobbing extracurricular the Rovers aft our past country unneurotic lol.’

Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday astatine 8pm connected ITV1 and from 7am connected ITVX. 

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