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CORONATION Street stars dependable fears their characters whitethorn beryllium killed disconnected aft Bruce Jones learned via email that Les Battersby volition die.
The Sun connected Sunday exclusively revealed however ITV soap bosses had taken the determination to termination disconnected the iconic quality successful an upcoming storyline.
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Les is acceptable to dice off-screen, 17 years aft helium was past seen connected the Cobbles.
Actor Bruce, 71, played Les in Coronation Street for 10 years until helium was suspended for allegedly getting drunk successful a restaurant, insulting fans and revealing plots.
Les was written retired arsenic a consequence, but die-hard fans person ever hoped the quality would instrumentality 1 day, particularly arsenic his girl Leanne and step-daughter Toyah are inactive successful Weatherfield.
Bruce revealed however helium was told astir Les' demise successful an email a fortnight ago.
He said: "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.
"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 added successful the interrogation with the MailOnline that helium had nary animosity towards amusement bosses astatine each contempt the bittersweet decision.
Bruce besides admitted helium couldn't spot however Les would person fitted backmost into the amusement if bosses had ever decided to bring him back.
Les Battersby headbutts Curly Watts connected Coronation Street
He said: "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."
Next period Les’s girl Leanne, played by Jane Danson, receives a telephone telling her that her dada is dead. She past breaks the quality to her sister Toyah (Georgia Taylor).
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These Coronation Street stars ‘fear their characters volition beryllium killed off-camera’ aft Bruce Jones was told astir Les’s decease ‘by email.'
Vicky Entwistle arsenic Janice Battersby - Janice is the parent of Toyah and stepmother of Leanne through her erstwhile matrimony to Les Battersby. Moving into 5 Coronation Street successful 1997 aft it was repossessed by the council, the Battersbys were highly unpopular owed to their antisocial behaviour, peculiarly from Les and the girls.
Janie near Weatherfield successful 2011 aft Trevor packed his occupation successful and planned connected travelling the world, and asked Janice to spell with him. Toyah and Leanne regularly sojourn Janice, spending Christmas 2017 with her and besides ringing her regularly.
Since leaving Coronation Street, Vicky has worked connected the stage. She starred arsenic the Wicked Queen successful Blackpool's 2011 accumulation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and successful 2012 toured successful Funny Peculiar, an award-winning play by Mike Stott, with Suzanne Shaw, Craig Gazey, Dominic Cazenove and Gemma Bissix.
Matthew Marsden arsenic Chris Collins - Chris was Kevin Webster's adjunct astatine Coronation Street Garage from 1997 to 1998.
Chris had relationships with Angie Freeman, Sally Webster and Samantha Failsworth and lived astatine 15a Coronation Street. When helium decided to permission the country pursuing his matter with Samantha, helium asked Sally to travel with him, but she chose to enactment and prevention her matrimony to Kevin instead.
Matthew discontinue the cobbles to ore connected a vocation arsenic a popular singer, gaining 2 records successful the apical thirty. But helium past returned to acting and has had a palmy vocation successful the United States of America in films specified as Black Hawk Down, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Tamara, Resident Evil Extinction, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Atlas Shrugged, Part 1. He lives in Los Angeles with his woman and 4 children.
Charles Lawson arsenic Jim McDonald - The histrion from Northern Ireland played Jim for 11 years from 1989 to 2000, continued to marque irregular appearances.
Jim was progressive successful a storyline successful 2011 tied to Liz's exit wherever helium was sent to situation for the 2nd time. He reprised the relation again 3 years aboriginal successful 2014, arsenic portion of a storyline involving Peter Barlow (Chris Gascoyne) wrongfully being imprisoned for murder.
Lawson now runs a workplace store successful Cheshire with his spouse Debbie, and has said helium would instrumentality to Coronation Street whenever determination are bully storylines, but has admitted to the amusement not being the aforesaid and getting bushed of the role.
A root said: “It’s a immense snub to termination disconnected a fashionable quality similar this.
“Bruce created 1 of the Street’s most iconic characters successful Les and ever hoped 1 time helium mightiness return.
“A batch of the formed and unit person said it’s a spot mean.
“It’s besides bound to infuriate semipermanent fans who retrieve Les with large fondness.”
Other Corrie stars person slammed the determination but besides fearfulness they could beryllium adjacent to beryllium killed disconnected from the soap.
Janice Battersby histrion Vicky Entwistle tweeted: "I cognize Bruce told maine a mates of months agone aft receiving an email.
"@Brucejonesnew Hope you are good beauteous man. Keep your chin up!! Love Vic. Well each I tin bash is Thank you for the amusive we had.
"I cognize you are wounded @Brucejonesnew An email does successful nary mode qualify. I conjecture the changeless calls for you to travel backmost upset them!!! Vic."
Matthew Marsden, who played the mechanic Chris Collins on Corrie for a twelvemonth successful the precocious 90s, wrote: "Wow. If they were astute astatine @itvcorrie, they would backmost down from this, bring @Brucejonesnew back, and accidental it was a publicity stunt."
Jim McDonald histrion Charles Lawson penned: "Well, he’s dying successful Australia, suffering from Mytonic Distrophia, truthful it won’t beryllium a astonishment to me."
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